> The first advice you need to give to an academic writer is not to read a book on stylish writing but rather to read how people in their field are writing. I

> The first advice you need to give to an academic writer is not to read a book on stylish writing but rather to read how people in their field are writing. I was once assigned the difficult task of having discussions with students about potential cases of plagiarism. There were some interesting cases, but one stood out because it was too well written. The student had quite a remarkable answer when they were asked about it: they looked at how their source material was written and emulated the style. This is a very important point for a couple of reasons: 1. The expectations of the audience in a given discipline can only be understood by examining other writing in that discipline. 2. There are some good academic writers out there.