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Beginning at the End
Begin as close to the end as possible -Kurt Vonnegut For both readers and writers, there is no single paragraph more important in an article or essay than the first one. It is also the one paragraph in an article that is read most frequently. For a writer, this is place to set the stage:…
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WRITING TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS
Limiting Bit Players Points that are being made in a research article are like characters in a novel. You do not want to introduce so many that your reader cannot keep track them. The experience of fiction writers is not so foreign as it might seem to academic writers. Fiction writers often describe the experience of…
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Battling Distractions in Writing
Many writers turn to pencil and paper for a first draft of a paper or chapter.
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Audience
Writing with an Audience in Mind Spotify link: https://anchor.fm/s/9d604abc/podcast/rss Your mindset for writing changes entirely when you start writing with an audience in mind. That’s when your principal motive is to explain. To make your argument as clear as possible. To not confound your reader to the point he/she stops reading and decides that doing…
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What Makes Writing Scholarly?
Nothing distinguishes writing as scholarly more than precision in the use of references from the literature. This is part of the unspoken curriculum.
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Reader as Rabbit
Readers expect a thruline. An article can mislead a reader when it states multiple purposes or when the purpose doesn’t match the title or analysis.
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A Mystery About Writing
How is it possible to forget you wrote something? It seems impossible, but a prolific writer with lots of ideas, can spend months and months writing an article or chapter, all the while carrying a detailed outline in his or head. Thinking and obsessing about it to the point it’s difficult to put down. More…
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The Importance of Global Perspectives in Research Publishing
There are many benefits in terms of impact to be deliberate about exposing yourself to the work of others outside a familiar circle.