Writing

A six-part series on academic writing, Chronicle of Higher Ed (2019)

American Society of Biochemist and Molecular Biologist Today

Inside Higher Ed (2019)

Elsevier (2014)

University of Waterloo (2020)

Using Revise and Resubmit Comments to Trasnsform Writing, Inside Higher Ed (2019)

UNC

UNC

Yale (2011)

Chronicle of Higher Ed (2019)

Chronicle of Higher Ed (2018)

The Op-Ed Project (2020)

Chronicle of Higher Education (2018)

Chronicle of Higher Education (2018)

This book is a classic on conducting research. It is valuable for writers because it explains how to formulate a cogent argument.

This book is a brilliant exploration of style in writing. It encourages writers to make sentences “short enough to feel the variations in length” and points out, “The longer the sentence, the less it’s able to imply, and writing by implication should be one of your goals.”

This book provides twenty basic patterns that writers use to add style and variety to their sentences. Not all sentences fit within these twenty patterns, but these patterns provide useful ways to organize complex ideas. The book also discusses figurative language in sentences.

This book is another tremendously valuable work on prose style. It emphasizes clarity in writing, and breaks down exactly how writers achieve this elusive quality. It includes tips such as, “Open your sentences with familiar units of information,” or “Get to the main verb of the sentence quickly.” The principles provided by this book are elegant and flexible.

For graduate students in the humanities:

A classic work on graduate study in the humanities, with all sorts of useful advice on multiple aspects of academia.