Editing services by Heather Wallace, PhD
What kind of feedback helps us improve the quality of our writing, and where can we find it? We need information about what is going on in the minds of our readers when they read our work.
How can we get better at writing clearly? Practice. But how can we practice academic writing? Here are three steps to train yourself to become a better writer.
We can improve our academic writing by improving three skills sets: disciplinary mastery, our ability to write clearly, and our writing habits.
Deliberate practice is the best way to make significant improvement at a skill in the long run. How can deliberate practice improve our writing? Part I.
In today’s sentence makeover, Bryce turns a single 68-word sentence into four sentences. He shows us how to map the relationship between parts of a long sentence by identifying subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns.
Academic sentences often try to cram the work of multiple sentences into one complex sentence. By identifying the core of a sentence, we can decide what work each sentences should do–and what work should be delegated to another sentence.