With millions of academic papers being published each year—close to an estimated three million in 2020 alone—scholars often struggle to make their work stand out. While no one has been able to nail ...

Each source type offers value. Databases provide depth. Journals reveal current debates. Reports deliver verified data. Careful source selection improves research writing and builds persuasive ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. We sometimes forget that academic writing is still writing. All writing is communication. Just as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Those who know me know I always encourage academics to write ...

University writing allows more freedom, demands deeper analysis and requires a style that reflects the writer’s own voice. Educators have a significant role in explaining the changes and how they can ...

The DePauw University Style Guide provides writing style standards for publications created for DePauw’s external audiences. Also included are examples of correct grammar and forms about which people ...

Writing a dissertation or a literary review is not the same as weaving a creative tale fueled by your imagination. Academic ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...

Combine short choppy sentences to create smoother prose. Short sentences are effective when used rarely; continually using short sentences creates stilted, awkward prose. I am not advocating paragraph ...

In my year out, I made the momentous decision to start writing fiction - becoming a novelist would be an ideal way to commit my name to posterity.