# Improving academic writing: Four books to read during #AcWriMo

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The piece recommends books and exercises for improving academic writing through habits, sentence craft, social support, emotional awareness, and deliberate practice.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 30 October 2022

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 30 October 2022
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: academic-writing, writing, reading, deliberate-practice.

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