By Angelica Ribeiro, PhD
As a new semester begins, it’s essential to implement effective writing practices that can help you advance your projects. In this article, I share some key practices you should consider:
Achieving progress is one of the most satisfying feelings. To experience this, establish habits that lead you toward your goals and track your progress to provide visual evidence of your hard work.
TAA member Andrea Honigsfeld and her coauthors. Maria G. Dove and Carrie McDermott Goldman, published a new book, Nine Dimensions of Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners. The K-12 textbook, published by Corwin, offers content area teachers practical strategies to meet the linguistic, social-emotional, and academic needs of multilingual learners, through nine scaffolded approaches. Congratulations, Andrea!
TAA member Kevin Patton’s The A&P Professor podcast, won a 2025 APEX Award for Publication Excellence. Patton is author of the award-winning textbook, Anatomy & Physiology. Congratulations, Kevin!
By Dr. Noelle Sterne
Q: I know what I want to write about, but I can’t seem to get anything down on the page.
— Wordless
A: Writing—whatever the type—is hard. Whether we must write a proposal, dissertation, article, book, or thank you letter, most of us have trouble starting, continuing, and finishing. Like you, I’ve had many tortured writing—or not writing—experiences, as do the clients I coach and whose work I edit. Observing all of our ridiculous roadblocks, I’ve developed eleven tricks to help us ease into or continue our writing. If you need convincing, credible rationales are here too for how each method can help you.
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Keep Writing: 101 Strategies for Academic Writers, by Patricia Goodson, Ph.D. and Margarita Huerta, Ph.D.. is a reader-friendly book that contains a wealth of approaches, strategies, and tools related to academic writing. Organized into 101 short entries (fewer than 500 words each), the text is crafted to inspire and motivate academics to keep writing throughout their entire careers.
