One area of concern international students may have is the large amount of academic papers they will need to work on once they’re enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Prospective and new ...

Academic writing at the college level can be quite scary. The stakes are high and the time is limited. With expectation weighing down on you from your instructors and family, it is easy to feel ...

The Writing Center offers exceptional peer tutoring for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of New Haven as they write for a dynamic range of reasons and audiences. We are available ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Students often arrive at college with strict writing rules in mind. Unfortunately, overly strict rules about writing can prevent ...

When it comes to reading academic research reports in the behavioral sciences, I'm no different than anyone else. I often find myself thinking "what is the point?" Reading academic papers is not ...

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 ...

Academics have long been accused of jargon-filled writing that is impossible to understand. A recent cautionary tale was that of Ally Louks, a researcher who set off a social media storm with an ...

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 ...

T here is no end to denunciations of academic writing. You’ve likely read one recently. They usually deride jargon and theory and despair over turgid and impenetrable prose. Most recently the British ...