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 ...

As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, plagiarism and authorship for educators. As an assistant professor of English whose ...

English has become the dominant language in global academic publishing, facilitating cross-border collaboration while reinforcing structural barriers for non-native English-speaking researchers. This ...

When James M. Lang published the book On Course in 2008 and garnered notable success, his editor invited him to dinner. She suggested that Lang might be interested in writing a book about cheating.

Writing is a skill often relegated to the backdrop of a student's academic journey, overshadowed by grades, majors, and extracurricular activities. However, the ability to write clearly and ...

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? With the penny ...