As a middle-aged instructor at the front of a college lecture hall, I feel like a pivot point — a human crossroads around ...

Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue, on social ...

Welcome to a new series, “The Public Writing Life,” about how to write for a popular audience (and get paid for it) when you are part of the academy. There’s plenty of good writing advice out there, ...

Students complete a First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process prior to matriculation, in order to determine which of several environments will provide the best seminar experience for them. (This ...

What Kind of Writer Are You? The Writing Program's First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process empowers first-year students to select the Academic Inquiry Semina r (AIQS) that best suits their needs ...

When James M. Lang published the book On Course in 2008 and garnered notable success, his editor invited him to dinner. She suggested that Lang might be interested in writing a book about cheating.

I t’s a truism that those of us who devote our careers to academe do so out of “love for knowledge” — producing it, advancing it, passing it on. But, in the trenches of academic life, juggling endless ...

Explore Stephen King's insights on writing, blending memoir and practical guidance to inspire joy and discipline in the ...

Artificial intelligence is absolutely everywhere these days, from generative AI chat tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to music, photo and video creators like Dall-E, HeyGen and Suno AI. For many ...