Academic writing encompasses many different formats, each with its own conventions and purposes. However, getting to know the various genres of academic writing helps students communicate effectively ...

Effective academic writing at Hope College should be characterized by eleven key qualities, regardless of paper type (whether lab report, reader response, personal reflection, memo, term paper, ...

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 ...

Academic writing will probably be very different to writing that you have produced before. There are very specific conventions, characteristics and rules that need to be adhered to. They convey ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

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 ...

An abstract is a concise, compelling statement that summarises a larger piece of work. They are useful for researchers to select relevant evidence, and for indexing purposes by search databases. By ...

Gordon Rugg received funding from the Government Office of the East Midlands for some of the work reported in the article "Selection and use of elicitation techniques for education research". If ...