Writing guides

Skills and advice for researching, collaborating on and writing academic articles, papers reports and essays, from preprints to peer-reviewed journals

By kiera.obrien, 28 April, 2025
How can you guide your students to make themselves stand out in a crowded field? In the first of a two-part series, discover six strategies to hone job applications to perfection
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 12 April, 2025
Long-form writing seems to have become a battleground for the showdown between AI and academic integrity. With technology exposing the essay’s flaws, Luke Zaphir offers ways to reinforce this storied assessment task
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 8 April, 2025
Verbal feedback can encourage students to think critically and independently about their language learning and improve future work. These tips explain how to put the method into practice
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 19 March, 2025
Tired of asking for more scope, depth and flow with no improvement in students’ writing? Maybe the problem is not the students but your feedback
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 7 March, 2025
User needs, smart prompts and functionality were central to creating an AI tool that supports student writing and thinking. Here, Joanne Chia and Angela Frattarola share the pedagogical and technical considerations involved in the process
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 6 March, 2025
Effective use of generative AI draws on a suite of skills that go beyond well-crafted prompts. Getting the best out of tech’s ubiquitous tool requires informed choices, field expertise, flexibility, diligence and a willingness to play
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 18 February, 2025
We need to teach that imperfect but authentic writing is more valuable than sentences that are polished on the surface, argue three US academics. Here, they share surprise findings from STEM and beyond
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5minutes