As a developmental academic editor who helps authors think through big-picture issues related to their writing, I have a lot of conversations with scholars about how to approach drafting a book. Many ...

Talking out composing decisions is highly developmental. Students gain new insight into the writing process through discussion with a more experienced peer and learn rhetorical thinking through ...

On Twitter, John Pavlus recently asked me which bit of the writing process I like most – researching and collating information, or actually getting it down on paper. So to answer that question more ...

Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...