Earlier this fall a headline in The Atlantic caught my eye. “The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing,” it said. Promising enough on its own, but there was also a subhead: “A new movement strives ...

Favoring active sentences over passive ones is probably the most repeated advice regarding clarity and concision. An active sentence is one where the subject is the source of the action. Conversely, a ...

We’re in a new year, and from what we’re seeing so far, 2017 is most certainly going to be the year of machine learning thanks to advances in artificial intelligence algorithms and a commitment to ...

Email takes up a large portion of our office time each day and it usually ends up sneaking into our evenings, too. Surely, it seems like shooting someone a quick email is pretty basic, but if you aren ...

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 ...