Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

Although the importance of academic writing skills for medical students has been recognized, there is a lack of systematic investigation into students’ learning needs, particularly for students at ...

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The RA title is not merely a linguistic label but a rhetorical act central to the practice of science and dissemination of knowledge (Soler 2011; Hao 2024), serving as the first point of contact ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

If you search Google Scholar for the phrase “as an AI language model”, you’ll find plenty of AI research literature and also some rather suspicious results. For example, one paper on agricultural ...

When James M. Lang published the book On Course in 2008 and garnered notable success, his editor invited him to dinner. She suggested that Lang might be interested in writing a book about cheating.