Asking Better Questions in the Age of Generative AI
Each year, I journey forth with an intrepid group of students to tackle the fearsome beast known as the research paper. Faced with the...
Interview: Beacon Press Executive Editor Amy Caldwell
The publishing process is often a mystery—particularly the first time around. The same is true for those who have published previously,...
Power Up Your Prose
We’ve all witnessed, or as I’m not ashamed to admit, committed the felony of bloated, meandering prose. You see it exhibited in the...
The Best Summer Reading List for Writers
What is it that signals it’s finally summer for the current or aspiring scholar? Is it the end of classes? The final, final exam? Or...
Improve Your Writing in Seconds
High school is full of little horrors. Everyone has her own personal list. I was afraid of public speaking, so mine includes a...
Review: "They Say/I Say," by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
Let me begin with the audience for They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter Most in Academic Writing. You should add this book to your...
Fear and Loathing and Revision
Back when I was still in publishing, I received a manuscript that was hundreds of pages longer than it needed to be. Over two years and...
3 Ways to Stop Fretting and Start Writing
Some people love music the first time they hear it and know it’s for them. Others gravitate toward art or architecture or long for a...
