Faculty Services

Improving Your Academic Writing

• The Academic Writing Club - This is an online service created and maintained by Dr. Gina Hiatt, who received her Ph.D. from McGill in Clinical Psychology and did her post-doc work at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.  She and her associates provide a 4-week program that guides and motivates one’s academic writing, whether for a dissertation, a book chapter, a peer-reviewed journal article, etc.  The program has transformed the approach to, and results of, academic writing for over 1000 faculty.  Cost is $15/week for four weeks.
• Fussy Professor Starbuck’s Cookbook of Handy-dandy Prescriptions for Ambitious Academic Authors - An excellent review of things to consider when writing for academic journals and other such venues.  This resource includes tips about clear writing in general as well as writing which reports results of research, experimentation, conclusions and inferences drawn from data, etc.