What Kind of Writer Are You? The Writing Program's First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process empowers first-year students to select the Academic Inquiry Semina r (AIQS) that best suits their needs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Those who know me know I always encourage academics to write ...

T here is no end to denunciations of academic writing. You’ve likely read one recently. They usually deride jargon and theory and despair over turgid and impenetrable prose. Most recently the British ...

Effective academic writing at Hope College should be characterized by eleven key qualities, regardless of paper type (whether lab report, reader response, personal reflection, memo, term paper, ...

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.) ...

Gordon Rugg received funding from the Government Office of the East Midlands for some of the work reported in the article "Selection and use of elicitation techniques for education research". If ...

The Academic and Professional Writing Program is a gateway to critical thinking and research in the university and beyond. In our courses, students use writing as a form of inquiry and an avenue to ...

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 ...

Academic scholars -- clinicians, researchers, and administrators who work at academic institutions and author manuscripts -- commonly default to publishing in peer-reviewed and specialty-specific ...

There’s been much discussion about the needless complexity of academic writing. In a widely read article in The Chronicle of Higher Education last year, Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at ...