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Verbal verve -- Noun density -- Prepositional podge -- Ad-dictions -- Waste words -- Afterword : healthy writing

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read – and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. This book showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

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. The title and topic of Helen's book, Writing with Pleasure, became the modus operandi of our collaborative process as we negotiated the challenges and rewards of venturing into new territory together. Like the forty illustrated panels that we co-produced for the book, these storyboarded scenes confound academic conventions and resist easy explication. Instead, they "gesture toward, lean into, sport with, learn from, dance around, and laugh about" (Sword, 2023, p. ii) the themes that they address: from shadowy sharks to unexpected treasures; from structural designs to serendipitous discovery; from imposter syndrome to creative confidence; and from surprise to delight.

Sect. 1 Riffs on a Rim -- 1 A Rim with a View: Orientalism, Geography, and the Historiography of Modernism / Steven Yao -- 2 Modernisms, Pacific and Otherwise / David Palumbo-Liu -- Sect. 2 Terrains -- 3 Unpacking the Present: The Floating World of French Modernity / Christopher Bush -- 4 Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism / Sadami Suzuki -- 5 Modernism and Modern Korean Poetry of the 1930s / Choi Dong Ho -- 6 Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes / Eric Hayot -- Sect. 3 Tectonics -- 7 Blackfellows and Modernists: Not Just Black and White / Ann Stephen -- 8 From Sydney and Shanghai: Australian and Chinese Women Writing Modernism / Susan Carson -- 9 Fission/Fusion: Modanizumu in Japanese Fiction / William J. Tyler -- 10 Oceans Apart? Emily Carr's and Katherine Mansfield's Encounters with Modernisms / Mary Ann Gillies -- 11 The Art of the Bluff: Youth Migrancy, Interlingualism, and Japanese Vernacular Modernism in New Youth Magazine / Kyoko Omori -- 12 'Oriental Wonders, Odd Fabrics': Walking through Hispanic American Modemismo's Chinatown / Francisco Moran -- 13 Pacific Rim Digital Modernism: The Electronic Literature of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries / Jessica Pressman -- Postscript -- 14 Waking to Global Capitalism in Seoul, San Francisco, and Honolulu: Pacific Rim Refigurations of the Global and the Local / Rob Wilson