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 ...

Academic writing encompasses many different formats, each with its own conventions and purposes. However, getting to know the various genres of academic writing helps students communicate effectively ...

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 ...

An electronic revolution in academic publishing and scholarly communication is occurring at an exponential rate. The transmission of information and research via emerging technology offers new ...

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 ...

The internet has made it easier than ever for scholars to engage directly with the public. An explosion of new content formats and dissemination channels has opened up opportunities to increase the ...

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 ...

Academic writing is bad, and academics should feel bad for writing it. So said Steven Pinker in The Chronicle a couple of years back, but he’s hardly alone. Academics have been kicking — or, if you ...

And today we're emphasising the writing part of Books and Writing, especially writing that comes out of our universities. There's a long tradition in which academic writing is accepted as difficult to ...