Academic Writing

By Heather Belgorodtseva, Director of Studies for Teacher Training at BKC-IH Moscow, spending much of her professional life giving colleagues constructive feedback. She also writes a blog about online communication, discourse analysis, and teaching. Criticising is an interesting word. It sounds so negative on the one hand — being negative…

Artists are lucky enough to getting away with naming their works ‘untitled’. Academics have no such option! We need titles. By doing so, artists might be inviting us to experience their work from own our perspectives, but we all know that academics need to persuade their potential audience to read…

Peer-reviewed, academic sources are publications that have undergone a thorough evaluation by experts in the same field or subject area as the author. This process is known as peer review and involves evaluating the validity, reliability, and relevance of the research presented in the article. …

In pursuit of an adequate summarization of the multitudinous epiphanies a potential reader might ascertain throughout a rigorous analytical investigation of Neil Labute’s With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold in conceptual synchronicity with its traditional literary equivalent, one can easily grow disheartened by the paradoxical nature of the titular Brothers Grimm…

It is a simplistic view of academic writing that the audience of our works is simply other academics. Whatever you are working on, you should be imagining who your audience will be. Why? Because you when you write, you write for them. …

Academic writing is all about persuasion. You have done your research and now it is time to persuade others to read it and take it seriously. Oftentimes though, Prof Partout feels like the authors themselves are not convinced by their arguments because they use language with weak illocutionary strength. What…

Essay writing is an art form and everyone seems to teach it differently! Here are some hints to nail your next project. The Introduction is the Key An excellent introduction can make or break an essay — especially if the reader is not obliged to read your work. 1. Your thesis does not need to…

By now, you and the rest of the world have heard about ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and related technologies. And by now, you’ve probably heard about the emerging lawsuits against several AI-related technology companies for copyright infringement. I won’t focus on these lawsuits’ background or current state here. What we’re…