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 ...

He was thinking, he said, of writing a popular nonfiction book, too. Since that conversation, I’ve fielded more than a dozen similar texts, calls, emails, and Zooms — all with academic peers ...

Exercises to brush up on your academic writing It’s tempting when you’ve finished a piece ... Video maker and science communicator Simon Clark explains exactly what a book proposal is and what you ...

While The Academic Phrasebank does not focus on one discipline, there are a range of books in the Bloomsbury Study Skills series that focus on academic writing for specific disciplines such as ...

Writing like teachers is an effective approach because most academic writers are, first and foremost, teachers. The title of Lang's forthcoming book is Writing Like a Teacher: Expanding Audiences ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical ... In writing, the passive voice is when the action comes at the end of a clause—for example, “the book was opened”. In scientific writing ...

This phenomenon, characterised by an inability to produce new work or a creative slowdown, is particularly challenging in academic writing, where the pressures of deadlines, methodological rigour ...

Two recent books, John Warner’s More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI and Leonard Cassuto’s Academic Writing as If Readers Matter, offer insightful perspectives on how to foster ...

All this said, to me a book is the writing, so it’s sort of like asking ... I can be moved by an intellectual or even academic work emotionally. Those works are labors of love too, in ...

Savor this—a passage of published prose written by a full professor at a major university, cited in Leonard Cassuto’s new book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter: [S]tudents’ production of texts ...