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Subject(s)

• Writing skills [Browse]
• Authorship [Browse]
• English language—Rhetoric [Browse]
• English language—Style [Browse]
• English language—Written English [Browse]

Contributor

• Marsh, Selina Tusitala [Browse]

Series

Skills for Scholars. [More in this series]

Summary note

An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By learning how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find yourself bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write.Acclaimed international writing expert Helen Sword invites you to step into your "WriteSPACE"-a space of pleasurable writing that is socially balanced, physically engaged, aesthetically nourishing, creatively challenging, and emotionally uplifting. Sword weaves together cutting-edge findings in the sciences and social sciences with compelling narratives gathered from nearly six hundred faculty members and graduate students from across the disciplines and around the world. She provides research-based principles, hands-on strategies, and creative "pleasure prompts" designed to help you ramp up your productivity and enhance the personal rewards of your writing practice. Whether you're writing a scholarly article, an administrative email, or a love letter, this book will inspire you to find delight in even the most mundane writing tasks and a richer, deeper pleasure in those you already enjoy.Exuberantly illustrated by prizewinning graphic memoirist Selina Tusitala Marsh, Writing with Pleasure is an indispensable resource for academics, students, professionals, and anyone for whom writing has come to feel like a burden rather than a joy.

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface: The Mosaic Mirror
• Introduction: Writing with Pleasure
• Part One: The Space of Writing
• 1. Society and Solitude: Social Principles
• 2. Body Basics: Physical Principles
• 3. On Beauty: Aesthetic Principles
• 4. The C-Curve: Creative Principles
• 5. States of Mind: Emotional Principles
• Part Two: The Space of Pleasure
• 6. On the Ground: Analog Tools
• 7. In the Sky: Digital Tools
• 8. Wind, River, Stone: Processes
• 9. Star Navigation: Identities
• 10. Island Time: Balance
• Conclusion: Making Space
• Afterword: The Road Ahead
• Behind the Mirror
• Reading Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

9780691229416 (electronic book)

OCLC

• 1444004917
• 1369856627

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