Moving Beyond the B: Will I ever write good well enough?

by Will Shine Success in higher education and life itself, as many of us came to believe, was contingent upon ‘good writing’—that is writing well (never good). When I was a freshman in college, I was required to take a writing-composition class. Now this wasn’t some sort of unique prerequisite for bad writers; unless you’d taken…

Practice: The Key to Effective Scientific Communication

by Matt Bloodgood Throughout my educational career, I have always thought of myself as an effective writer. People told me I was an effective writer. Was I? Or was I just good enough to appear to be more effective than those around me? On rereading some of my own work, I lean toward the latter.…