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Air & Light & Time & Space : How Successful Academics Write
Hardback Edition: 1
Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed
strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment. Featured in the 20 Febuary 2017 New Zealand Newsletter. Featured in the May 2017LAW Newsletter.
Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional 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. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded.
Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish.
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Pages : 266
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Publication date : 2017-04-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL