Academic Writing: How to Do It Well and Why We Must

If you want people to read your writing, it has to be readable. Leonard Cassuto (English, Fordham University) offers academic writers a direct, practical prescription for writing that will be read and understood: Take care of your reader. In this discussion, Prof. Cassuto will offer tips and advice on how to sharpen arguments and make complex ideas clear and compelling–and he’ll also talk about why this matters today, more than at any time in the long history of American higher education. We’re all in quicksand together, and better writing gives us a rope to climb out. Lunch will be served at 12:00 pm, with the program beginning at 12:30. Attendees will be entered in a drawing to receive one of 10 copies of Prof. Cassuto’s book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (Princeton UP, 2024). This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School, the Office of Faculty Affairs, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, and the Syracuse University Humanities Center.