Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword

Stylish Academic Writing



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Stylish Academic Writing Helen Sword ebook
Page: 240
ISBN: 9780674064485
Format: pdf
Publisher: Harvard University Press


Aug 12, 2013 - For a psychology graduate class I'm teaching this fall (on speaking/writing for general audiences), I'm trying to create a list of good resources on writing, speaking, and blogging about science. May 2, 2012 - Helen Sword is a professor in the Centre for Academic Development at the University of Auckland. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (2009) Unscientific America: How scientific literacy threatens our future. In fact, there is evidence to support this claim, which I found out after I'd written this post: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/05/14/stylish-academic-writing/. With so much bad academic writing, we cry, "Paragraphs, paragraphs everywhere, and not a word to read." Yet much academic writing is refreshing and worth savoring. In this book Helen Sword dispels the myth that stylish academic writing needs to be verbose and punctuated with jargon. Feb 4, 2013 - I will write more about this study in a later post. Dec 14, 2012 - Stylish Academic Writing – $21.81 – Who doesn't want to be a better writer? Jun 18, 2013 - Stylish Academic Writing 4: A Cup of Cold Water. Her new book, Stylish Academic Writing, is just out from Harvard University Press. Randy Olson (2009) Don't be such a scientist: Talking substance in an age of style.

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