A recent study finds that literature review skills are a key predictor of academic writing quality among postgraduate students. The ability to synthesize, evaluate, and organize existing research is ...

Academic writing skills are fundamental to most university courses. Andrew Struan explains how Glasgow has taken a whole-university approach to ensure all students are well equipped to succeed ...

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, ...

Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) is a pedagogical movement that has flourished at colleges and universities across the US for more than 40 years. Throughout its history, WAC has shown that ...

Of all the words that might be applied to Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments about Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke — "vile," "misogynistic" and "repulsive" come to mind — one word that has ...

Academic writing courses have historically served as a kind of gate-keeping measure. In North America and other settler colonial societies, such courses have traditionally imparted skills and ...

For academics, faculty and staff at any level, academic writing skills can be the difference between being published in academic journals, funded or employed or their hard work going unrecognised.

An introduction to academic reading and writing skills required for undergraduate study. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth ...

Writing is a much-prized skill and a difficult one to master and, while some are naturally gifted in stringing sentences together, we all need to take the time to learn the craft. Whether you want to ...