As a middle-aged instructor at the front of a college lecture hall, I feel like a pivot point — a human crossroads around ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: What follows is an excerpt adapted from a new book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, out this month from Princeton University Press. Most academic writers want a wide audience for ...

Dense, jargon-filled, and painfully complex—academic writing has long frustrated readers and writers alike. But is it pretentiousness, or something deeper about how knowledge works?

The college experience teaches you many skills, from how to take notes to pulling off all nighters to surviving on a diet of takeout and microwave noodles. One set of skills, though, that our ...

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 ...

When a writer is a Ph.D. student, on the job market or on the tenure track, the question of which writing projects she needs to build into the year often has a rigid answer. Answers might look like: ...