12 posts tagged with "academic writing"

Get a free writing consultation for your current project​

November marks academic writing month, and we have just launched ReallyWrite, a platform dedicated to improving your writing skills.

We want to help you with your writing and get valuable feedback at the same time.

To kick things off, we are offering 5 free writing consultations—just email [email protected] to sign up!

What You Can Expect:

📅 Time and place: We'll find a date that works for you and meet remotely via Teams.

⏳ Duration: 30 minutes

🔍 Focus: We'll analyze a section of your text with the help of ReallyWrite.

🚀 Outcome: You'll walk away with a clearer understanding of your writing strengths and areas for improvement.

How to Participate:​

Just email us at [email protected] with

1. your research field
2. your native language
3. the writing sample you would like to analyze

Your writing samples will be kept strictly confidential. If you have any concerns, feel free to reach out to us.

Selection Process:​

We will choose 5 researchers from the emails we receive. We aim to represent various fields and countries.

I look forward to meeting some of you soon!

Make the biggest impact with your research​

You're deep in your research and you're excitedly writing a paper to share all the details with the world. But how can you make the biggest impact?

Most of us are so involved in our text that we forget to pay attention to the other player in this game: the reader. We find it hard to stop and think about where our reader is, what our reader is thinking of, and what our reader needs. Instead, we focus on ourselves: "What do I want to say here?" and "What do I find important?"

Many readers struggle to read academic articles. But you can make a difference by making your article easy to read and thus increasing its reach.

There is one basic way to improve your writing skills: shift your perspective.

Think about your reader.​

As writers, you act in service to your reader. You are not the reigning monarch, you are the butler. You, the writer, do all the behind-the-scenes work to make sure your reader has an easy life. You hold the keys to the castle, you organize everything within it and, most importantly, you offer them what they need when they need it.

So when revising your text, remember to put your reader front and center and ask yourself this question for every decision that you make:

When we are focused in on the details, it's easy to forget that this article is not for us, it's for others.

When you get feedback to "use more passive voice," ask yourself:

If the answer is no, reject the suggestion and move on.

When you get the feedback that you "need to use jargon," ask yourself:

If the answer is no, reject the suggestion and move on.

When you get told that you should "use synonyms to make it less boring," ask yourself:

If the answer is no, you know what to do!