Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...
Academic writing skills are fundamental to most university courses. Andrew Struan explains how Glasgow has taken a whole-university approach to ensure all students are well equipped to succeed ...
It’s easy to think of writing as a task, a verb in its present participle form, something our brain nags at us to do. Better, though, to think of it as a culture, something woven into the fabric of ...
The times they are a-changin’ and academic publishing is no exception. The rise of open access has made more research freely available but brings its own set of challenges. Generative artificial ...
A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for graduate students.) ...
Aspetar is inviting the public to join its Academic Writing Journal Club on February 23 with the theme “Getting the word out: New approaches for disseminating public health science.” The event started ...