Try some new tools
Explore these free resources and tools for academic, professional, and personal writers, developed by international writing expert Dr. Helen Sword and her colleagues at the University of Auckland with generous support from the Schuler Educational Enhancement & Development (SEED) Fund.
Want to write with more energy, impact, and style? Enjoy unlimited access to premium writing and editing tools, weekly inspiration and advice, and an ever-expanding resource library for as little as $12.50 per month. Join the WriteSPACE today!
The Writer’s Diet
Shape up your sentences and strip unnecessary padding from your prose with Helen Sword’s famous Writer’s Diet workout. NEW: Now you can diagnose full-length documents on your own desktop, make targeted changes, and watch your writing improve dynamically with the free Writer’s Diet add-in for Microsoft Word.
The Writing BASE
Ramp up your productivity, strut your style, expand your social networks, and develop new pleasure in writing. The Writing BASE provides diagnostic advice for writers who want to broaden and deepen the behavioral, artisanal, social, and emotional dimensions of their writing practice.
SPACE Gallery
Struggling to keep your fingers on the keyboard? Irritated by the demands of writing? Whether you produce emails, reports, or academic papers, it’s easy to forget the joys of writing. This gallery — a collection of images from Helen’s Writing with Pleasure research — will help you remember.
Helen’s Word
Explore these free YouTube videos for academic writers, professional writers, creative writers – anyone who wants to develop and maintain a flourishing writing practice.
Zombie Nouns
Zombie nouns transform simple and straightforward prose into verbose and often confusing writing. Keep your sentences free of elongating nominalizations!
WriteSPACE Quiz
Not sure where to begin your writing journey? Take our “What’s Your Writing Roadblock?” quiz to find your own best route to productive, pleasurable writing.
Smudge Skittle
Prompt your students (and yourself!) to write more critically and creatively with this playful open-ended card game that tangles artistic thinking with written reflection.
Digital Writing Tools
Learn about the key features, advantages, limitations, and pedagogical potential of six popular online spelling, grammar, and style checkers.
Writing Writing Everywhere
Read about how academics from across the disciplines have engaged their students with the theme of “writing writing everywhere,” both in and beyond the classroom.
The Stoneflower Path
Explore the creative potential of digital poetry and poetics by wandering the The Stoneflower Path, a gallery of digital poems that can be experienced either as static texts, audio recordings, or interactive multimedia hypertexts.
The Artist*Academic
Browse our collection of resources and case studies for incorporating arts-inspired practices into your own research, teaching, and leadership.
Links
Click into this compendium of writing-related videos, articles, interviews, and book reviews by or about Helen Sword.
Main image credit - Artist: Helen Sword, Rēinga