Welcome to a new series, “The Public Writing Life,” about how to write for a popular audience (and get paid for it) when you are part of the academy. There’s plenty of good writing advice out there, ...

With academic skills services facing a perfect storm of challenges, many are under review. Here’s how to make sure your students’ needs are being effectively met, through seven questions How can ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethical considerations and academic integrity Issues of academic integrity were central to participants’ experiences. Students expressed concerns about unintentional plagiarism, the accuracy of ...

Artificial intelligence systems that generate sustained conversations in response to user input ("generative AI") have captured headlines recently. Such composing tools offer challenges and ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the advent of AI and ChatGPT has ushered in a new era of academic assistance. As a doctoral student and research writer myself, I have witnessed and ...

Piles of books covering all available desk, floor and chair space. Scribbled pages of notes whose meanings are only decipherable to graphologists. Numerous tabs open on my creaking laptop. Word files ...