What is easier? To redo someone’s existing work, or to start over. Sure it is nice to have something to start with. Someone else has done all of the work. All you have to do is tweak it and make it better. But that can also be painful. Sometimes I get stuck in their language.…
Month: January 2023
Peer Reviewer 2 is the Worst
Rejection is a huge part of academic writing. But let’s step back a bit and review how one would even get to this point. It starts with an idea. Perhaps it is a gap that your institution is trying to address. Perhaps you are investigating a solution for a problem that you can no longer…
Writing is Under Attack
What is it about human nature, that we immediately go to doom and gloom when faced with change. ChatGPT was introduced, and suddenly social media is flooded with posts about the end of the university essay; posts heralding that research papers are now obsolete; some even suggesting that education is antiquated. Writing is dead is…