Finding Your Voice as an Academic Writer (and Writing Clearly)

Finding your voice: a singing lesson from functional imaging.

Vocal singing (singing with lyrics) shares features common to music and language but it is not clear to what extent they use the same brain systems, particularly at the higher cortical level, and how this varies with expertise. Twenty-six participants of varying singing ability performed two functional imaging tasks. The first examined covert generative language using orthographic lexical retri...

The Life Cycle of the Scientific Writer: an Investigation of the Senior Academic Scientist as Writer in Australasian Universities

Nurse as writer, writer as nurse.

An Automatic Feedback System for Academic Writing

Writing is an important activity in academic and corporate environments. Feedback on the writing is key to improving the quality of documents, and for novice writers to develop their skills. This paper describes the architecture of a web-based framework for providing automated feedback. The framework allows writers to use different writing tools such as Wiki’s, cloud-based Google Docs or Word. ...

Writing at Work: How to Write Clearly, Effectively and Professionally

Is there an evolution or progress in the Philosophy of Documentation and Professional Writing? Yes, there definitely is! How do I know? – Because during the past four decades I was involved in various aspects of scientific and humanity-related documentation (e.g. creation of data bases), writing reference and text books, editing of books and several international journals, and publishing of hun...