Sarnecka Lab Blog

The big news in our lab this week: The Writing Workshop Book is finally out!  It includes all of the material that was in the blog posts ...

  Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences...

[Hemingway] has no courage . . . He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary. -Will...

One of the underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.  -William Zinsser

Featuring IMRad, the friendly hourglass! 

Last week I received an email from the academic publishing giant Elsevier , inviting me to check out Elsevier’s new Open Science page...

The scariest moment is always just before you start. –Stephen King

The only thing you can control is how you spend your time.

Writing productively is about actions that you aren't doing but could easily do: Making a schedule, setting clear goals, keeping t...