Fall Academic Coaching and Writing Program

August 25, 2016
Register now for the Fall Academic Coaching and Writing Program to ensure you reach and surpass your writing and career goals. The ACW Coaching and Writing Program includes our daily virtual Writing Room that runs from September 19 through December 16, 2016. To participate in the ACW Fall Coaching and Writing Program, you must sign up to work with a coach by September 1, 2016, and begin your coaching by September 15, 2016. Continue reading Fall Academic Coaching and Writing Program →

Features of good academic writing

August 19, 2016
Academic writing is a style of writing governed by certain rules, practices, formal structure and order. It presupposes the use of correct spelling, grammar and punctuations. Typically, academic writing is divided into the essay format and the academic report format. In the case of an essay, there are three distinctive parts —  beginning, middle and end. Continue reading Features of good academic writing →

Good Lord, I certainly learned nothing about writing from grad school!

August 9, 2016
Camille Paglia is an intellectual flamethrower. She’s fearless. She can be bully-mean and a name caller. She makes some people really, really mad. But she’s also a serious thinker who has been able to write important scholarly books that cross over into a wide readership, and you can regularly find her byline in national magazines, where it’s always a treat to read her sentences. Continue reading Good Lord, I certainly learned nothing about writing from grad school! →

Steven Pinker

Scholars Talk Writing: Steven Pinker

August 1, 2016
‘Good prose requires dedication to the craft of writing, and our profession simply doesn’t reward it.’

Steven Pinker is about as close as you can come to being an academic celebrity. The Harvard professor of psychology has written seven books for a general readership in addition to his scholarly work, which is wide-ranging. Pinker frequently writes about language for The New York Times, The Guardian, Time, and The Atlantic, and also tackles subjects such as education, morality, politics, bioethics, and violence. Continue reading Scholars Talk Writing: Steven Pinker →

Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No.

July 29, 2016
When I became a professor, 20 years ago, I received a request from a woman who lived close to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I taught: Could she come and talk to me about a set of interests she was developing, in the area of my own specialty in anthropology, and get my advice on applying to graduate school? We spoke for about 45 minutes in my office, at the end of which she asked, “How much do I owe you?” Continue reading Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No. →