{"title":"Helen Sword","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen Sword’s books offer insightful guidance on writing with clarity, elegance, and enjoyment. Her works explore the craft of academic and creative writing, blending practical advice with an accessible and engaging style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom enhancing the rhythm of your prose to inspiring a fresh approach to scholarly communication, her titles encourage writers to embrace pleasure and precision in their work. These thoughtful volumes are essential reading for anyone looking to refine their writing skills.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-writers-diet-by-helen-sword-9780226351988","title":"The Writer's Diet","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDo your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, \u003cem\u003eThe Writer’s Diet\u003c\/em\u003e is for you! It’s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energise your prose and boost your verbal fitness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis. Instead, she offers an easy-to-follow set of writing principles: use active verbs whenever possible; favour concrete language over vague abstractions; avoid long strings of prepositional phrases; employ adjectives and adverbs only when they contribute something new to the meaning of a sentence; and reduce your dependence on four pernicious “waste words”: it, this, that, and there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSword then shows the rules in action through examples from William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King Jr., John McPhee, A. S. Byatt, Richard Dawkins, Alison Gopnik, and many more. A writing fitness test encourages you to assess your own writing and get immediate advice on addressing problem areas. While \u003cem\u003eThe Writer’s Diet\u003c\/em\u003e is as sleek and concise as the writing ideals contained within, this slim volume packs a powerful punch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith Sword’s coaching, writers of all levels can strengthen and tone their sentences with the stroke of a pen or the click of a mouse. As with any fitness routine, adhering to the rules requires energy and vigilance. 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Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo how do these successful academics write, and where do they find the \u003ci\u003e\"air and light and time and space,\"\u003c\/i\u003e in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing done? What are their formative experiences, their daily routines, their habits of mind? How do they summon up the courage to take intellectual risks and the resilience to deal with rejection?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: \u003ci\u003eBehavioral\u003c\/i\u003e habits of discipline and persistence; \u003ci\u003eArtisanal\u003c\/i\u003e habits of craftsmanship and care; \u003ci\u003eSocial\u003c\/i\u003e habits of collegiality and collaboration; and \u003ci\u003eEmotional\u003c\/i\u003e habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this \"BASE,\" she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. 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By learning how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find yourself bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed international writing expert Helen Sword invites you to step into your \"WriteSPACE\" —a space of pleasurable writing that is socially balanced, physically engaged, aesthetically nourishing, creatively challenging, and emotionally uplifting. Sword weaves together cutting-edge findings in the sciences and social sciences with compelling narratives gathered from nearly six hundred faculty members and graduate students from across the disciplines and around the world. She provides research-based principles, hands-on strategies, and creative \"pleasure prompts\" designed to help you ramp up your productivity and enhance the personal rewards of your writing practice. 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For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read—and to write.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStylish Academic Writing\u003c\/i\u003e showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. 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