Today we’re busting the myth that academics write alone! Looking at history and publishing statistics shows a growing trend of collaborative writing. So rather than put pressure on ourselves, academic researchers and authors should recognize the valuable social relationships available to them.

In this episode, we celebrate (nearly) a year of Academic Writing Talk! Inspired by Spotify “unwrapped,” I look to the data to see what you liked to listen to. Did I get it right? Let me know... and happy holidays and New Year!

Most academic articles are written by more than one person. But what makes for a trusting and productive co-author relationship? To answer that question, I interviewed Neta and Ioana about their decade of international writing collaboration, which recently culminated in the publishing of their book "Not Your Parents' Politics" for Oxford University Press.

Co-authoring articles and even whole books is an important part of academic writing! In this week’s episode, I’ll talk about problems that emerge when collaborating on papers, and how you can recover from them.

This week I talk about one of my “North Star” concepts that helps orient academic writers. If you’ve ever wondered what the first thing to think about when starting a piece of academic writing, look no further!

In response to the election results, you might be wondering what you can do. In this episode, I talk about the “Three Rs” for writing coaching, which can help professors open space for trust and empathy with graduate students.

In today’s episode, I interview games researcher Dr. Aaron Trammell, who is an Associate Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine. We touch on our personal writing challenges, writing as pedagogy, and ultimately decide we want to… work at a video rental store? You’ll have to hear why!

In today’s episode, I interview games researcher Dr. Aaron Trammell, Associate Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine, about his recent trifecta of books published for NYU, MIT, and Duke. We touch on how themes cut across books and why academics can be our own worst critics! (Pt. 2 is coming next week.)

As I've helped Masters and PhD students refine their NSF GRF applications, I've taken notes on what to do and not to do—learn more in this episode!

How can academics write up quotes in a sophisticated way? As I've worked with qualitative researchers and edited their manuscripts, I've thought quite a bit about this challenge!

You can "write around" a lot of research problems. However, other research problems can't be solved with writing! In this episode, I discuss three types of these problems: methodological rigor, previous literature, and lived experience.

How should academics write about gender and non-cisgender people? In this episode, I draw from Karen Yin’s notion of “conscious style” to offer helpful suggestions.

This week I talk about three distinct ways of thinking about your academic writing. Are you a head, heart, or gut writer?

In this episode I talk about the politics of "double dipping"—how academics can maximize their publications while respecting copyright and academic norms.

In this week's episode, I interview Dr. T. Philip (Phil) Nichols about how he researches infrastructure in education while always attending to questions of equity.