Many good ideas that might be of public benefit are cloistered away. In this 32-page collection, Steven Pinker and other writing experts describe what’s wrong with academic prose and practical ...

The Citation Format: Now that we have a few blogs to read, it is time to properly cite their posts. There are standard formats for citing a blog i n MLA and Chicago Style, which can easily be ...

Reihane Boghrati shares the results of her study on the ways one’s writing style can affect how often an academic paper is cited. With millions of academic papers being published each year—close to an ...

But this is not an unhappy accident. There’s a good reason for it that goes back centuries – and it also explains why you’re not hugging trees to cure your illnesses. The necessity of rigorous if ...