Stylish Academic Writing - Helen Sword 2012

Acknowledgments
Afterword

During the past few years, I have had so many stimulating conversations about academic writing with so many colleagues in so many countries—Australia, Canada, England, Finland, France, Hungary, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United States—that I cannot possibly acknowledge them all here. To all the stylish writers and thinkers who have contributed their ideas, insights, and inspiring examples to this book, I extend my warm and grateful thanks.

For their thoughtful, eloquent, and in some cases voluminous responses to my initial e-mailed query about academic style: Elizabeth Anderson, Anita Arvast, Erik Borg, John Butcher, Bruce Calvert, Nicole Rege Colet, John Collins, Peter Cook, Wystan Curnow, Rob Cuthbert, Shirley Dow, John Dunn, Phil Edwards, Lewis Elton, Elizabeth Evans, Jenn Fishman, Susan Gray, Mike Hanne, Mark Hauber, Keith Hutchinson, Anna Janssen, Joce Jesson, Hester Joyce, Bill Kirton, Bridget Kool, Ernest Linsay, Brenda Lobb, Julia Lockheart, Heather MacKenzie, Maree McEntee, Julienne Molineaux, Nancy November, Boris Pavlov, Tai Peseta, Jim Phelan, Suzanne Phibbs, Terri Rees, Dory Reeves, Regula Schmid, Mano Singham, Greg Smith, Jan Smith, Lynn Sorenson, Fritha Stalker, Veronica Strang, Eluned Summers-Bremner, Barbara Thomborson, Sue Tickner, Rolf Turner, Anne Wealleans, Benjamin D. Watanabe Williams, Bill Wolff, and Michael Wright.

For unsolicited feedback of the kind that keeps a writer nourished in times of famine: Debra Anstis, Amani Bell, Graham Bradley, John Brooks, Kelly Coate, Joan Appleton Costanza, Sara Cotterall, Vivienne Elizabeth, James Hartley, Isabeau Iqbal, Darryn Joseph, Meha Pare, Tepora Pukepuke, Pip Rhodes, Chris Smaill, and Angela Thody.

For their collegiality, adventurousness, and scholarly devotion to engaging academic writing: Brenda Allen, Satya Amirapu, Olga Filippova, Fabiana Kubke, Manuel Oyson, Wayne Stewart, and Yvonne Sun.

For generous financial support: The Centre for Academic Development, the Faculty of Education, and the Research Office at the University of Auckland.

For designing the graphics in Chapters 2 and 3: Tony Chung.

For permission to reproduce the diagram in Chapter 9 (from Elizabeth J. Allan, Suzanne P. Gordon, and Susan V. Iverson, “Re/thinking Practices of Power: The Discursive Framing of Leadership in the ’Chronicle of Higher Education,’ ” Review of Higher Education 30, no. 1, p. 49, Fig. 1, © 2006 by the Association for the Study of Higher Education): The Johns Hopkins University Press.

For permission to reproduce the Virginia Woolf drawing in Chapter 11: The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

For allowing me to expand on ideas originally explored in my article, “Writing Higher Education Differently: A Manifesto on Style” (Studies in Higher Education 34, no. 3, May 2009: 319—336): Taylor and Francis Ltd., http://www.informaworld.com.

For various forms of help, advice, encouragement, and succor along the way: Amit Bansal, Julie Bartlett-Trafford, Bill Barton, Adam Blake, Marion Blumenstein, Godfrey Boehnke, Brian Boyd, Ian Brailsford, Linda Bryder, Susan Carter, Alison Cleland, Michael Corballis, Hamish Cowan, Jan Cronin, Santanu Das, Ashwini Datt, Claire Donald, Sam Elworthy, Peter Gossman, Barbara Grant, Cameron Grant, Russell Gray, David Green, Cathy Gunn, Penny Hacker, Neil Haigh, Meegan Hall, John Hamer, Tony Harland, Lynette Herrero-Torres, Matthew Hill, Kaye Hodge, Wen-Chen Hol, Craig Housley, Marjorie Howes, Barry Hughes, Hilary Janks, Alison Jones, Frances Kelly, Barbara Kensington-Miller, Te Kani Kingi, Michele Leggott, Andrea Lunsford, Fran Lyon, Robyn Manuel, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Christiane Maurer, Archie McGeorge, John Morrow, Kathryn Philipson, Elizabeth Ramsay, Matiu Ratima, Ray Ryan, Kimberly Brown Seely, Tessa Sillifant, Karen Springen, Lorraine Stefani, Hugh Stevens, Sean Sturm, Kathryn Sutherland, Kate Thomson, Malcolm Tight, Jacquie True, Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Lesley Wheeler, Martin Wilkinson, Les Tumoana Williams, Katarina Winka, Gina Wisker, and the Scary Book Babes.

For hour upon hour of meticulous research assistance: Hannah Field, Alison Hunt, Gregory Kan, Caroline Sturgess, and especially Louisa Shen.

For their faith in this book when it was little more than a gleam in its author’s eye: my energetic agent, John W. Wright, and my wise editor, Elizabeth Knoll.

And finally, for their patience, good humor, and love: my children, Claire, Peter, and David, and my amazing husband, Richard Sorrenson, who makes everything possible.