Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Those who know me know I always encourage academics to write ...

It’s Academic Writing Month. I had to look this up to see what the organizers actually intended for this celebratory month. I always think of November as NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, ...

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.

In the publish-or-perish world of academia, it’s often believed that only one kind of publication matters: the peer-reviewed journal article. Academic papers play an outsize role in determining ...

Finally, I can provide my graduate students with an impassioned defense of unclear academic writing. I give my students readings on how to produce clear academic writing. I show them how to make ...

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 ...