International Literacy Management

Seven secrets of stylish academic writing. Imagine that the editor of a widely-read magazine or, say, The Conversation has heard about your academic research and invited you to contribute an article. But you only know how ...

Great pt, on bad academic writing: Many scholars ignore diff b/w "logic of discovery" & "logic of presentation": http://t.co/9RJTw1SF

Teaching Writing Through Personal Reflection: Bad Idea Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog) exercises, but by close reading summaries and by “Arguespeak”—Gerald Graff's term for academic habits of reading and writing characterized by...

Women In Tech: 5 Analysts To Watch Huffington Post As a social media researcher for Microsoft Research, Boyd was named the "smartest...

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> Academic success depends on research and publications.
> -- Philip Zimbardo

The Happy Academic Writer has...

Telegraph.co.uk
University quotas to boost number of women academics would be wasted ...
Telegraph.co.uk
More time spent on non-academic concerns inevitably equals less time networking, writing up papers, or in the lab.

What's your writing personality type? (Seven habits of effective writers. And no, academic writing is not a special unique flower these dont apply to.

A scholar finds that his weekly postings on a blog have helped him not only to build contacts but to face his fears as as writer.

What Is a Colleague?
Inside Higher Ed
The summer “A Kinder Campus” emerged, I brainstormed with writing center colleagues about a column that could help others. I've shared the story before; it might bear repeating.

In addition, I have had to constantly refine and diversify my approaches to explaining any given assignment, seeing what methods help clarify the finer points in the art of academic writing. Beyond these hands-on, ...

Why do academics write like malfunctioning random word generators?

The Guardian
Is English still the dominant language of higher education?

Case study: Children learn to learn to read and write on laptops in Sweden
ComputerWeekly.com
“We want the teachers to have the courage to try the technology and to have fun,” says Löf.

National Post
Sex-selective programs and the belief that 'boys will be boys' stigmatize ...
National Post
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Based on my own experience writing and correcting papers and discussions with students I have compiled these ten tips to help you get going. I have used these at the Academic Writing Club we set up in National College of ...

The Atlantic
Why Parents Need to Let Their Kids Fail
The Atlantic
Keep her in for lunch detention and make her write "I will not write my daughter's papers using articles plagiarized from the Internet" one hundred times on the board?

It's a daunting time to be a professional science writer. Science, it seems, is working too well. As Carl Zimmer told an auditorium full of science graduate students, "It's hopeless to cover it all...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was a lot of support for using Twitter to help with academic writing. Those who took part in the chat are established Twitter users and already use the #acwri hashtag to discuss writing.

I just looked over my blog posts for last winter and discovered that this January has been much like last January --- lots of time spent not doing anything much at all, no time spent working on academic writing, a vague feeling ...