To talk, as I am here, about the aesthetic pleasures of scholarly writing is surely a fool’s game. After all, we know that much academic writing is at best intelligible and at worst unreadable. To ...

At some point in your academic years, you probably have written about literature without really knowing that you wrote about literature. And you probably created a nice paper trail. At many ...

Editor’s note: What follows is an excerpt adapted from a new book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, out this month from Princeton University Press. Most academic writers want a wide audience for ...

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

Katie Linder, Ph.D., an expert on academic writing and writing productivity, will lead two sessions of her workshop, “Creating and Maintaining a Scholarly Writing Pipeline,” on Sept. 27. The workshop ...

And there are no foolproof tools that allow educators to suss out whether students have improperly used A.I. In response, many teachers and professors are rethinking what types of writing they assign ...

To make a greater impact, scholars need to overcome the curse of knowledge so they can package their ideas with concrete, technical, and active writing. Researchers from University of Arizona and ...

I recently sat outside to watch the Hudson Classical Theater’s production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)—a 90-minute romp through 38 plays and 154 sonnets. Part farce, but ...

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 ...

A four-step process teaches students how to use GenAI tools to brainstorm ideas, understand and act on feedback and edit ...

Academic writing is often framed as something faculty should simply manage better; when they struggle, the blame is put on the individual academic. But this explanation doesn’t hold, as Rachel Gabriel ...

Students complete a First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process prior to matriculation, in order to determine which of several environments will provide the best seminar experience for them. (This ...