If You Want Your Research to Make an Impact, Embrace Your Unique Writing Voice
The transition from academic writing to business writing can feel a bit like leaving the highway to go off-roading.
In the academy, the communication path is paved with clear expectations. The goal is usually to inform, explain, or teach. That means, the focus is on the subject matter, and the approach is to explore the subject systematically and thoroughly.
In the business world, however, the road to successfully communicating your ideas tends to be rockier. When you're writing for an industr…
Writing with the Robot: Three Random Observations on Creating Text Hand-in-Hand with AI
Generative AI and I are just getting to know each other. Right now, I'd describe our relationship as hesitant dating. I'm still a bit too wary to invest a lot of time or cash in getting to know AI at a deep level. But I have become curious enough to have the equivalent of a few coffee chats.
For years, I've put off even shaking hands with this new technology, thinking (arrogantly) that I, a "professional writer," didn't need any new-fangled help. Back in the early 2000s, when I was a full-time …
Hunting for the Philosopher's Stone of "objective" scientific language
Flash forward four or five hundred years, and today’s scientific community is still looking for a version of the Philosopher’s Stone. The hunt now is for an element to f…
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