by Lauren Copelan “Academic writing isn’t creative and creative writing isn’t academic.” Says who? The learned dichotomy between creative and academic writing privileges one form of writing over the other. We are taught that there is a time and a place for both, but that college is the place for academic writing only (save a…
by Amin Amouhadi Writing is a skill, and like any other, practice makes one better at it. This rather banal platitude, I will explain, should invoke a pregnant pause. What do we mean by ‘writing is a skill’? We are familiar with other skills, like swimming, driving, etc. What is common to them all is…
by Seth McWhorter There exists a schism in my thoughts on the focus of writing in Biology. Scientific writing squeezes creativity out of a writer, creating a robotic writing style that echoes every thought of a researcher’s predecessors. Creativity is still a necessary trait in a scientist, but a scientist’s focus is on creating unique…