Academic writing encompasses many different formats, each with its own conventions and purposes. However, getting to know the various genres of academic writing helps students communicate effectively ...

Does a piece of writing have a sex? Not really! It perhaps has a gender, which in French is genre. When it comes to distinguishing one category of writing from another, however, genre seems to ...

The leading contemporary theorist of identity Judith Butler is known for, and often attacked for, having a difficult writing style. But she once explained that, after studying difficult philosophers ...

Institutions are increasingly pressuring academics to share their research more widely in order that it should positively contribute to the world outside academia. It is no longer enough simply to ...