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Back to SearchShyam Sharma, "Writing Support for International Graduate Students" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 8
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, author of Writing Support for International Graduate Students: Enhancing Transition and Success (Routledge, 2020). We talk about international students and r…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvard UP, 2012)
Episode 9
Listen to this interview of Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard UP, 2012). We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good. There's even a dog.
Interviewer : "…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Jo Mackiewicz, "Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 6
Listen to this interview of Jo Mackiewicz, author of Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study (Routledge, 2018). We talk about talk, tutor talk, student talk, spoken written-language, and …
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
The Work and Value of University Presses: A Discussion with Niko Pfund
Episode 7
What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse?
November 9 is the beginning of University Press Week, and today I had the honor of talking to Niko Pfund, the president …
Published on 5 years ago
Scholarly Communication: Kit Nicholls on the Writing Center and the University
Episode 5
Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what everyone cares about.
Interviewer : "That's the key, an…
Published on 5 years ago
Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
Episode 4
Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2020) approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank the discipl…
Published on 5 years ago
William Germano, "Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Episode 3
When I put down Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 2016), I looked up and began to wonder. I wondered about the book …
Published on 5 years ago
Scholarly Communication: An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS
Episode 2
Open Access is spelled with a capital O and a capital A at the Public Library of Science (or PLOS, for short), a nonprofit Open Access publisher. Among PLOS's suite of journals, PLOS One is the nonpr…
Published on 5 years ago
Scholarly Communications: An Interview with Helen Pearson of 'Nature'
Episode 1
Nature is the premier weekly journal of science, the journal where specialists go to read and publish primary research in their fields. But Nature is also a science magazine, a combination unusual in…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago