Writing
Techniques for coherent, analytical lit reviews.
Ed-tech companies aim to be providers of educational content, but it’s hard to believe they are as concerned about academic quality as long-established educational publishers have been.
Strategies to engage the public in your research topic.
The argumentative essay – the gold standard of persuasive writing – may be a better measure of good rationalization than good critical thinking.
Be sure your application shows the significance of your work while focusing on your most compelling accomplishments.
Part 2: Strategies to extend your monograph’s reach.
Created in about a week, the collection offers a “snapshot” of the pandemic from scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
Part 1: Strategies to extend your journal article’s reach.
How controversy, curriculum change and emerging perspectives are shifting the study of Canadian literature.
As AI-facilitated algorithmic writing improves, it poses tricky questions about authorship and what constitutes an “original” paper or assignment.
The criticism that some academic writing can be difficult to read shouldn’t be ignored.
The use of jargon can be effective in journal articles and grant applications – but use it sparingly when writing for a wider audience.
Small steps can make a big difference to engaging students in their own assessment.
Within academia, the professional editor is considered to be an outside, unknown and potentially dangerous entity.
How to lighten your reader’s cognitive load in your academic writing.
The Bridge Prize was established as the University of Lethbridge’s “Giller Prize for students,” says dean of liberal education.
A six-step approach for doing the (seemingly) impossible task of applying reviewer feedback to your journal article.
Ineffective colour can make an otherwise compelling image incomprehensible.
The singular “they” and your power to choose as an academic writer.
There are many tools that measure readability scores, but few contexts in which they’re useful for academics.