Communicating the worth of your work to the academic world – and beyond – starts with writing. Writing for a journal, turning your work into a book or reviewing existing research all require distinct ...
Strong academic writing isn’t just about ideas—it’s about how you present them. Using precise word choice, purposeful sentence starters, and smooth transitions can make your arguments clearer and more ...
Brian Connolly’s defense of one variety of academic writing — the “turgid and impenetrable” kind — is unconvincing (“Everyone Hates Academic Writing. They’re Wrong.” The Chronicle Review, April 1).
Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue, on social ...
Academic writing and publishing in English remain pivotal to global research dissemination. As the lingua franca of scholarly communication, this domain is characterised by a dynamic interplay between ...
When James M. Lang published the book On Course in 2008 and garnered notable success, his editor invited him to dinner. She suggested that Lang might be interested in writing a book about cheating.
If you’ve ever made friends with an unwieldy textbook or spent the night trawling through online libraries for journal papers to support a soon-to-be due essay, you’ve probably lamented the boring and ...
Strong academic writing isn’t just about good ideas — it’s about making those ideas connect logically and read smoothly. Cohesion links your sentences, while coherence ensures your overall argument ...
Deciding on a dissertation writing service is never an easy task. A dissertation is a high-stakes academic project, and for ...
It’s Academic Writing Month. I had to look this up to see what the organizers actually intended for this celebratory month. I always think of November as NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, ...
Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...