
Tense about tenses? A grammar guide and a coffee mistake
Getting your tenses right in academic writing can make people feel quite anxious, because it goes very quickly from ‘so the past tense is for
Getting your tenses right in academic writing can make people feel quite anxious, because it goes very quickly from ‘so the past tense is for
You know I love Kamler and Thomson’s Tiny Texts–and we talk about them at length in our Academic Writing Trouble book. I’ve also talked before
I am currently working on three book projects with three different teams, and that has led me to think carefully about how to be a
When I started going to the gym (see Exercising Like a Girl parts 1 and 2), one of the things that was kind of weird,
We all know academic writing “shouldn’t quote Wikipedia”… but what we often get wrong is why it’s not ‘the done thing’. The real reason isn’t
So How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble has just arrived in the publisher’s warehouse, which means it’s nearly ready to send out into the world! (Want
This is a reflection on the form of a writing genre and what that means. I started thinking about it about a year ago, on
By the time your academic writing is ready to be published, it’s a tough nut, a rose hip, a thick-skinned firm grapefruit. It’s ready to
For every article (or book chapter), you need to understand who you are writing for to write a strong abstract, a good introduction and conclusion,
When you start a PhD, you are doing something you’ve been practicing for a long time, studying, and you’ve shown you are really good