students who regularly practice different writing formats score 27% higher on standardized writing assessments. Developing versatility across academic formats requires deliberate practice.

Stereotypical academic ... writing is to not treat it like a chore or a nuisance. Just as a scientist optimizes a bench assay through repeated trial and error, combined with literature reviews on what ...

No one wants their writing to be the subject of ridicule and disdain, but that’s the lot of many academic writers, whose turgid, clumsy, lumpy prose is deemed largely unapproachable by a general ...