Finally, I can provide my graduate students with an impassioned defense of unclear academic writing. I give my students readings on how to produce clear academic writing. I show them how to make ...

Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for meeting research and writing goals. But if you’re going on the faculty-job market for the first time — as a recent Ph.D. or an advanced doctoral ...

Undergraduates need them for graduate-school applications; PhD students and postdocs use them to apply for fellowships and jobs; senior scientists often have to have them to apply for awards and ...

It is around this time of year, when letter-writing season is in full swing, that many professors receive numerous requests for recommendations from students and colleagues applying for graduate ...

Because no cover letter can convey all this information appropriately in only two pages, you will need to tailor your letter depending on the department, the university, the requirements specified in ...

Academic writing and publishing in English remain pivotal to global research dissemination. As the lingua franca of scholarly communication, this domain is characterised by a dynamic interplay between ...

Knowledge should be accessible to all, not just a select few. Whether it be law or science, academic writing is unnecessarily complicated. (Photo courtesy of Unsplash) The bane of my college existence ...