How Successful Academics Write, with Helen Sword

About This Event

Do you aspire to write more stylishly, prolifically, and with greater ease and enjoyment? In this lively Zoom workshop, international writing expert Helen Sword will introduce you to the BASE habits of successful academic writers – behavioral, artisanal, social, and emotional – and show you how to develop a customized blueprint for building a more productive and pleasurable writing practice from the ground up. Please bring along a notebook and pen and come prepared for an interactive and inspirational session!

At the end of the workshop, the Corridor will be raffling off a selection of Helen Sword's books to participants.

This workshop is aimed at faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Featured Guests

• Helen Sword, Professor Emerita, The University of Auckland

Helen Sword is scholar, poet, and master teacher whose research-based books on writing and writers include Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard 2012), The Writer's Diet (Chicago 2016), Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard 2017) and Writing with Pleasure (Princeton 2023). She is Professor Emerita in the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation at the University of Auckland, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the recipient of several major research and teaching awards. Helen has facilitated writing workshops at more than 100 universities, conferences, and research institutes on every continent except Antarctica. See her website for links to writing resources including books, workshops, retreats, videos, innovative editing tools, and the WriteSPACE, an international writing community with members in 30+ countries. www.helensword.com

Co-sponsors

• Syracuse University Office of Research