Prof David Kerr reflects on the late Doug Altman and shares 10 timeless tips on writing, collaboration, and why some papers become citation magnets.

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 ...

The platform helps to outline, draft, and expand any arguments. The source is created to ease the process of writing essays, ...

College work is a challenge to students. Several learners are overwhelmed. Good writing abilities make you succeed. You can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever cracked open an academic article and instantly regretted it, you’re not alone. This video explores why scholarly writing is often so inaccessible — and why that’s not a bug, but a ...

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 ...