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From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all…


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1 author picked Air & Light & Time & Space as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is an inspiring compendium of writing advice from successful academic writers, ones who have (apparently) found ways to mix academic writing with “having a life”; and have already created habits and routines that work; and have already learned the unwritten rules of academic prose. 

That means that this book is best for the mid-career academic who wants to develop a more engaged or inspiring relationship with their writing process.

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