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, ...

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, ...

Book reviews are important inputs into a wider system of academic publishing upon which the academic profession is symbiotically dependent, and in a previous career advice column I argued that all ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

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

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 ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

Students complete a First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process prior to matriculation, in order to determine which of several environments will provide the best seminar experience for them. (This ...