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Guide to Writing Alt Text for Academic Book Illustrations

Thoughtfully written alt text is essential to making your academic book or article more accessible to visually impaired audiences.

Learn how an academic developmental editor can help you improve the argument, structure, and organization of your book or article.

Line editing can help international authors express their ideas more clearly in English and overcome peer reviewer criticism.

Tips for professors to brainstorm and write statements of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for academic job applications at universities.

Permissions editor James Toftness explains when and how to seek permissions for the quoted text and images you want to publish in your book.

Find out why authorial voice is so important to academic writing and get tips for how to develop your own.

Wondering how to bounce back from a break or kick your creative drive into gear so that you can write more?

Editing a collection of essays is completely different from writing your own book and can be a real challenge—but a rewarding one.

Take a look at several types of writing groups so you can decide which one fits your needs.