Jessica Lester and Trena Paulus co-edited a December 2023 special issue for the Sage journal, Qualitative Inquiry, “Qualitative inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring methodological consequences of digital research workflows.” Read the articles and watch a roundtable with contributors. This is the first of two discussions of the special issue.

Academic writing is not always writing! Pictures and media enliven our writing, and can be important for showing concepts and contexts.

How and why should you argue in academic writing? Learn more from Dr. Alastair Bonnett, author of How to Argue.

This post includes tips about writing qualitative proposals excerpted from Research Design by Creswell and Creswell.

Thinking about research careers and calling: finding the right fit.

Online harassment and abuse continue to grow. What do these behaviors mean for researchers and research communications? Watch this recorded webinar and find a trove of related resources in this post.

What do journal editors want? Read an open-access collection of editorials that offer practical suggestions about how to organize and write an article that will pass the review process and get published.

Use research cases as the basis for individual or team activities that build skills.

Peer review is a social process involving the interactions of authors, reviewers and editors, each of whom make a different contribution to the production of knowledge. Learn more in this guest post from Dr. Dermot Breslin.

Safary Wa-Mbaleka, Arceli Rosario, and Anna Cohen Miller discussed opportunities and challenges for global researchers and academic writers in this roundtable discussion.

Don’t get caught by predatory publishers!

Celebrate Academic Writing Month 2023 by getting organized! Find open-access resources to help you avoid being distracted by details and lost files.

Find an 10-step process for using research cases to teach methods with learning activities for individual students, teams, or small groups. (Or use the approach yourself!)

Jo VanEvery believes that a writing practice based on the desire to write and enjoyment of the intellectual challenge will produce the outputs you are under pressure to produce. Learn how in this post!

AI can do a lot of things but it cannot do originality. Learn more from Dr. Alastair Bonnett, author of How to Be Original.

Dr. Linda Bloomberg offers four presentations about qualitative research approaches at each stage of the process.

In this presentation, Dr. Linda Bloomberg explains how to think through key questions associated with presentation of qualitative findings, and walks through an example that demonstrates ways to align research designs with presentation strategies.

Dr. Linda Bloomberg offers detailed suggestions for getting organized and starting a dissertation or thesis.

Connect or reconnect to the joy of writing with these tips from Dr. Katherine Firth.

How can critical thinking skills help you write more precisely? In this post Dr. Alex Baratta offers some practical tips.