Many teachers assign academic essays. That’s for a reason. They are a brief composition that evaluates, interprets and analyzes a specific topic. When you are a student, it’s very important you learn ...

Other academics, particularly younger scholars, often ask me about how to get an academic book published. When I recently floated the idea of writing a series of blog posts about this issue, on social ...

Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...

Amanda Mphahlele receives funding from NRF Thuthuka. Sioux McKenna and Amanda Mphahlele received funding from the National Research Foundation for a project looking at institutional differentiation.