This is a living set of notes on how academic writing works as thinking, craft, and social practice. The following is shaped by my work with graduate writers across disciplines and by my own experience publishing.
Academic writing is full of recurring problems, recurring constraints, and recurring workarounds. This project collects those patterns and organizes them so they are easier to see and easier to teach.
How this is organized
- Models are short explanations of recurring concepts that shape academic writing, such as genre, audience, evidence, and cognitive load.
- Tools are specific practices for revising and diagnosing drafts, such as reverse outlining and sentence mapping.
- Examples are annotated excerpts that show the patterns in action.
- Bibliography is a curated reading list, grouped by what each source is useful for.
This is not a writing-centre “how to” page. It is closer to a small archive of working concepts, methods, and examples.