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Scholarly Writing Supports for Researchers

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Introduction

Scholarly writing is an essential activity for researchers as it is a primary mode to communicate researchers’ contributions, disseminate knowledge, and generate impact. In this guide, you’ll find a variety of tools and guidelines designed to support you in sustaining a writing practice and community, crafting well-structured and argued academic written works, and shape your writing to increase relevance to intended audiences.

Resources for Scholarly Writing

This section offers scholarly literature on writing academic prose well, sustainably, and with disciplinary rigour. In the articles and books listed below, scholars share their approaches to planning and finishing scholarly writing projects while also working to enjoy the process.

How to Write a First-Class Paper

Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers. Nature (2018).

How We Write: Understanding Scholarly Writing through Metaphor

The author argues scholars should develop a metaphor for one’s scholarly writing practice. In so doing, the author argues that scholars can increase scholars’ productivity and may ultimately enhance their writing experience

Rulebook for Arguments

A primer on the different forms of persuasive argument and the ways to make written arguments more convincing.

Writing with Pleasure

A book that empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By learning how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find yourself bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write.

How We Write: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blank Page

A set of essays on the writing process from engaged academic writers who also maintain an active online presence.

The Scientist’s Guide to Writing

This guide provides practical advice to help scientists become more effective writers so that their ideas have the greatest possible impact.

Writing your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

This textbook demystifies the journal article writing process, emphasizing a sustainable writing progress that moves draft articles to submission ready publications over twelve weeks. This textbook is the foundation of the CRIS Faculty Writing Accelerator.

Writing Field Notes and Using Them to Prompt Scholarly Writing

This journal article encourages researchers to use their field notes and other descriptive qualitative data sources as a vital tool for combatting writer’s block and establishing a self-reflective research praxis.

Writing as if Readers Matter. Cassuto (2024)

A practical guide to making your academic prose more readable and understandable. This book aims to encourage scholarly authors to prioritize clarity of style, sharp arguments, and to connect with the readers for whom you are writing.

Write no Matter What: Advice for Academics. Jensen (2017)

This guide examines how to juggle the demands of faculty life (teaching, service, research) with the need to write and publish. Jensen’s guide encourages academic writers to write often and frequently to forestall obstacles to getting writing done and published.

Thriving as a Graduate Writer: Principles, Strategies, and Habits for Effective Academic Writing. Cayley (2023)

This book encourages graduate writers to develop a writing practice while exploring the unique issues of writing when in graduate school. Concrete strategies for multilingual writers on how to manage an academic text and balance the demands of graduate school simultaneously are examined.

Participating in a Scholarly Writing Community

This section explores the intellectual and social benefits of being in a writing community and the impact they can have on scholarly outputs.

Benefits of Joining a Writing Community

Writing Groups, Change and Academic Identity: Research Development as Local Practice

This article examines the use of writing groups as a strategy for research development. Studies in Higher Education (2003).

Writing Groups in the Digital Age: a Case Study Analysis of Shut Up & Write Tuesdays

A case study that examines how social media and digital technologies develop, maintain, and protect a scholarly writing practice Research 2.0 and the Impact of Digital Technologies on Scholarly Inquiry (2017).

Designing your own Writing Community

This section offers resources and guidance on how to create, host, and sustain writing communities.

Establishing a Long-Term Writing Workshopping Partnership

A free, online course outlining the steps to establish and maintain a writing exchange partnership. Includes free checklists and feedback forms to shape and structure the exchange process.

Critical Collaborative Communities: Academic Writing Partnerships, Groups, and Retreats, ed. Simmons and Singh (2019)

This edited collection explores the challenges of academic publishing: from pressure to publish, to establishing a sustainable writing practice, to defending writing time. Strategies and approaches are shared on how to foster writing supports through writing in pairs and in groups.

Guides for Starting your own Writing Community

Considerations While Writing

This section prompts researchers to be informed about their rights as authors, explore where to publish their research, and consider their audience to improve and shape their academic writing.

Researching where to publish and who you are writing for can help your writing take shape.

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

NCFDD is a leading provider of professional development in higher education with programs that empower faculty for lasting success with mentoring, coaching, tools, and on-demand support.

Their 14-Day Writing Challenge and their Faculty Success Program focus on scholarly writing. Additional webinars and resources are available on how to develop a writing plan that works during semesters, summers, and during sabbaticals.

U of T faculty can register online for a free NCFDD account.