Habits of Highly Productive Writers - A Workshop for Academic Staff

'Publish or perish’ is the mantra of the successful academic. Yet few academics have been explicitly trained as writers, and fewer still have been schooled in the intricate art of maintaining research productivity without sacrificing work-life balance.  Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing, has interviewed more than 50 successful academics from across the disciplines to find out about their professional formation as writers, their daily work habits and their habits of mind.  In this interactive workshop, she will present a smorgasbord of evidence-based strategies for colleagues who aspire to write more confidently, stylishly, engagingly, daringly or simply more prolifically.

Helen Sword is a scholar, poet, and award-winning teacher who has published widely on modernist literature, higher education pedagogy, digital poetics, and academic writing.  Her books include Engendering Inspiration  (1995),  Ghostwriting Modernism  (2002), The Writer's Diet  (2007), Pacific Rim Modernisms (co-edited 2009), and Stylish Academic Writing (forthcoming from Harvard University Press).  She is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Academic Development at the University of Auckland, where she received a 2007 Teaching Excellence Award for Innovation in Teaching.  See her website (www.helensword.com) for links to her books, her digital poetry and the Writer’s Diet, a free diagnostic tool for writers.

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