Helen Sword
Biographic Data
| ID | 123922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Sword |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sword |
| SIGNATURE | SWORD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8426-5529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing with Pleasure
Collaborating Off the Beaten Track
Writing off the beaten track requires confidence, courage, and chutzpah. Collaborating off the beaten track requires something more: trust, for a start, not to mention flexibility, respect, a robust sense of humour, and an appetite for intellectual risk-taking. Join us as we revisit some memorable moments from the off-piste collaboration of a book author (Helen) and an illustrator (Selina) who also happen to be colleagues, co-mentors, and friends…
Base pleasures
This article explores the affordances, limitations and future potential of the Writing BASE, a heuristic tool designed to help academic writers identify their strengths and weaknesses in four foundational areas of their writing practice: behavioural, artisanal, social and emotional. After describing the development of the tool, we report on two separate but related studies based on the BASE rubric: (1) a statistical analysis of questionnaires com…
Seven Ways of Looking at a Data Set
A literary theorist, a biologist, an historian, a writing studies scholar, and a poet walk into a wine bar. The poet says, "I've got a stack of 1,223 handwritten questionnaire responses here in my bag; would you like to have a look?" The others reply, "Sure. Let's see what we can learn here." Descending from their respective disciplinary perches, they all gather around a table and start sifting through the questionnaires, which chronicle the writ…
Air & Light & Time & Space
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 have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment. So how do these successful academics write, and…
Air and Light and Time and Space
Pacific Rim Modernisms
The Pacific Rim is a geographical region made up of all areas bordered by the Pacific Ocean, its span reaching countries as diverse as the Canada, Korea, China, Mexico, and Australia. Tracing vectors of appropriation, migration, and exchange, Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity. Appropriately, given their wide g…
Writing higher education differently
According to a recent survey of colleagues across the disciplines, the most effective and engaging academic writers are those who express complex ideas clearly and succinctly; write with originality, imagination and creative flair; convey enthusiasm, commitment and a strong sense of self; tap into a wide range of intellectual interests; avoid excessive jargon; employ plenty of concrete examples and illustrations; demonstrate care for their reader…
H. D.'s Majic Ring
James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and the Poetics of Ouija
Writing higher education differently
According to a recent survey of colleagues across the disciplines, the most effective and engaging academic writers are those who express complex ideas clearly and succinctly; write with originality, imagination and creative flair; convey enthusiasm, commitment and a strong sense of self; tap into a wide range of intellectual interests; avoid excessive jargon; employ plenty of concrete examples and illustrations; demonstrate care for their reader…
Seven Ways of Looking at a Data Set
A literary theorist, a biologist, an historian, a writing studies scholar, and a poet walk into a wine bar. The poet says, "I've got a stack of 1,223 handwritten questionnaire responses here in my bag; would you like to have a look?" The others reply, "Sure. Let's see what we can learn here." Descending from their respective disciplinary perches, they all gather around a table and start sifting through the questionnaires, which chronicle the writ…
James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and the Poetics of Ouija
H. D.'s Majic Ring
Pacific Rim Modernisms
The Pacific Rim is a geographical region made up of all areas bordered by the Pacific Ocean, its span reaching countries as diverse as the Canada, Korea, China, Mexico, and Australia. Tracing vectors of appropriation, migration, and exchange, Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity. Appropriately, given their wide g…
Writing higher education differently
According to a recent survey of colleagues across the disciplines, the most effective and engaging academic writers are those who express complex ideas clearly and succinctly; write with originality, imagination and creative flair; convey enthusiasm, commitment and a strong sense of self; tap into a wide range of intellectual interests; avoid excessive jargon; employ plenty of concrete examples and illustrations; demonstrate care for their reader…
Air & Light & Time & Space
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 have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment. So how do these successful academics write, and…
Air and Light and Time and Space
Seven Ways of Looking at a Data Set
A literary theorist, a biologist, an historian, a writing studies scholar, and a poet walk into a wine bar. The poet says, "I've got a stack of 1,223 handwritten questionnaire responses here in my bag; would you like to have a look?" The others reply, "Sure. Let's see what we can learn here." Descending from their respective disciplinary perches, they all gather around a table and start sifting through the questionnaires, which chronicle the writ…
Base pleasures
This article explores the affordances, limitations and future potential of the Writing BASE, a heuristic tool designed to help academic writers identify their strengths and weaknesses in four foundational areas of their writing practice: behavioural, artisanal, social and emotional. After describing the development of the tool, we report on two separate but related studies based on the BASE rubric: (1) a statistical analysis of questionnaires com…
Writing with Pleasure
Collaborating Off the Beaten Track
Writing off the beaten track requires confidence, courage, and chutzpah. Collaborating off the beaten track requires something more: trust, for a start, not to mention flexibility, respect, a robust sense of humour, and an appetite for intellectual risk-taking. Join us as we revisit some memorable moments from the off-piste collaboration of a book author (Helen) and an illustrator (Selina) who also happen to be colleagues, co-mentors, and friends…
Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)