Dear fellow writer,
Welcome back to Swordcraft, my new series of short, sharp weekly videos for writers who want to hone their wordcraft, one snippet at a time.
Today’s swordsnip is the third in a 6-part sequence for paid subscribers called Research Bites, which offers bite-sized summaries of research articles on academic and professional writing.
Today we’ll take an insider peek at two small-scale studies that I conducted in collaboration with my research assistants Peter Sorrenson and Madeleine Ballard shortly after the publication of my 2017 book, Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write.
I’ll walk you through the key research findings from our 2019 Studies in Higher Education article on the behavioral, artisanal, social, and emotional dimensions of academic writing, and you’ll learn how and why I developed my free online diagnostic tool, the Writing BASE. To finish, I’ll offer 4 practical takeaways that you can use to help you interpret your own BASE results.
Paid subscribers can find a downloadable pdf of the article at the bottom of this post.
Kia pai tō koutou rā (have a great day) – and keep on writing!
Helen
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