This is the fourth and final post in my series on how to write an academic press book and get it published. In Part I, I summarized the criteria that can help you decide whether you want to write an ...

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, on social ...

College students face a common enemy. The blank page. The blinking cursor. Writing essays can feel like torture. Professors want polished academic writing. But who actually practices that in real life ...

Many teachers assign academic essays. That’s for a reason. They are a brief composition that evaluates, interprets and analyzes a specific topic. When you are a student, it’s very important you learn ...

A lot of students lack the general skills required to produce good academic papers or essays. This can be due to a number of reasons, including lack of proper training by your teacher, a general ...

Kudos to Gail A. Hornstein for advising scholars to write for readers beyond academe (The Chronicle Review, “Prune That Prose,” September 11). The importance of pruning was brought home to me by an ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...