Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Those who know me know I always encourage academics to write ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

Question: The only standard advice I have received about the writing sample for job applications is: “Stay within the page limit.” But surely there is better advice than that. And how much leeway ...

Nothing is more frustrating during the writing process than stopping because we cannot find an appropriate word or phrase. We have the idea in our head but no matter what combination of words we try, ...

Academic writing is defined by conventions rather than rules and so its style varies. The point is not for you and your peers to produce identical pieces of writing , but to provide a shared framework ...

A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for graduate students.) ...

Level, Macro-Level Share and Cite: Fuentes, A. (2025) Postgraduate EFL Writing with GenAI across Scientific Domains: A ...

Writing assignments at the university level often require an academic voice. There are certain aspects of academic voice that are more formal than every day, conversational speech. Typically, academic ...