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In many ways, even a brilliant, groundbreaking paper is only as good as its abstract. That’s because while the average academic paper ultimately has a depressingly small audience (though just how small is a matter of heated debate), the audience for the full paper is even smaller, with most researchers reading only the abstracts of the majority of the papers they cite. The good news is that a readable, compelling abstract is your best shot at getting a foot in the door with

Are you making full use of your academic editor? Editors improve text, sure. But the best ones do a lot more than that. One of the...

Have you ever gotten lost in an academic article or textbook, caught up in the information almost the same way you would in a juicy thriller or harrowing tale of adventure? I hope you’re lucky enough to have had this experience, but I must admit it’s not a common one across academic writing. That’s because the main purpose of academic writing is to inform and discuss—not captivate. That said, there’s absolutely no reason academic writers can’t draw on some of the same princip

Let’s cut to the chase: the vast majority of academic writing is notoriously dull . It’s hard to read, harder to understand, and even...