Helen Sword-Stylish Academic Writing-Harvard University Press (2012)

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1、StylishAcademicWritingStylishAcademicWritingHelenSwordHARVARDUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,Massachusetts&London,England2012Copyright©2012byHelenSwordAllrightsreservedPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataSword,Helen.Stylishacademicwriting/HelenSwo

2、rd.p.cm.Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.ISBN978-0-674-06448-5(alk.paper)1.Academicwriting.2.Englishlanguage—Style.I.Title.LB2369.S962011808'.0420711—dc232011035339CONTENTSPartI:StyleandSubstance1.RulesofEngagement32.OnBeingDisciplined123.AGuidetotheStyleGuides23PartII:TheE

3、lementsofStylishness4.VoiceandEcho355.SmartSentencing486.TemptingTitles637.HooksandSinkers768.TheStoryNet879.ShowandTell9910.Jargonitis11211.StructuralDesigns12212.PointsofReference13513.TheBigPicture14714.TheCreativeTouch159Afterword:BecomingaStylishWriter173viCONTENTSAppendix177No

4、tes183Bibliography199Acknowledgments213Index217PREFACEFormanyacademics,“stylishacademicwriting”isatbestanoxymoronandatworstariskybusiness.Why,theyask,shouldweaccessorizeourresearchwithgratuitousstylisticflourishes?Doesn’tovertattentiontostylesignalintellectualshallowness,aprivilegin

5、gofformovercontent?Andwon’tcolleaguesrejectasunseriousanyacademicwritingthatdeliberatelyseekstoengageandentertain,ratherthanmerelytoinform,itsreaders?Inthisbook,Iarguethatelegantideasdeserveelegantexpres-sion;thatintellectualcreativitythrivesbestinanatmosphereofexperimentationrather

6、thanconformity;andthat,evenwithintheconstraintsofdisciplinarynorms,mostacademicsenjoyafarwiderrangeofstylisticchoicesthantheyrealize.Myagendais,frankly,atransformativeone:Iaimtostartastylisticrevolutionthatwillendinimprovedreadingconditionsforall.Inparticu-lar,Ihopetoempowercolleagu

7、eswhohavecometobelieve—Ihaveheardthismantraagainandagain—thattheyare“notal-lowed”towriteacertainway.Thisbookshowcasestheworkofacademicwritersfromacrossthedisciplineswhostretchandbreakdisciplinarymolds—andgetawaywithit.Notonlydotheypublishinrespectedpeer-reviewedjournalsandplacetheir

8、bookswithprestigiou