front cover of Teaching Academic Writing in the Health Sciences
Teaching Academic Writing in the Health Sciences
A Guide for Instructors, Mentors, and Trainers
Ella August
University of Michigan Press, 2026
Immersing trainees into academic research culture helps them learn to think, write, and publish like full-fledged researchers. Teaching Academic Writing in the Health Sciences offers best practice pedagogical strategies to help instructors, mentors, advisors, lab leaders, and ministries of health as they guide trainees toward professional development and publication. With practical strategies and examples, the book supports readers in improving their mentoring skills; creating effective writing assignments; providing effective feedback; developing writing courses; and planning publication workshops, retreats, and writing groups. In addition, the book includes strategies for supporting writers with varying backgrounds, including second-language speakers and neurodiverse writers. 

Part 1 offers the pedagogical basis teachers need to apply best practices, as well as:
  • Tips for collaborative writing and writing productivity
  • Strategies for using generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology in teaching and writing
  • Open-access resources and instruction planning activities

Part 2 focuses on the steps of writing a scientific paper, offering:
  • A strong foundation in the structure of and strategies for successful writing
  • Customizable teaching materials on how to write a scientific paper
  • Strategies for planning a paper, crafting writing to reach readers, developing persuasive arguments, and building a successful author team
  • How-to write each section of a paper, from the title to the conclusion
  • Guidance on navigating the publishing process, including selecting the appropriate journal and effectively responding to peer-reviewer comments
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Teaching the Quadrivium
A Guide for Instructors
Peter Ulrickson
Catholic University of America Press, 2023
Reviving an educational tradition involves a double task. A new generation of students must be taught, and at the same time the teachers themselves must learn. This book addresses the teachers who seek to hand on the quadrivium-the four mathematical liberal arts of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy-at the same time as they acquire it. Two components run in parallel throughout the book. The first component is practical. Weekly overviews and daily lesson plans explain how to complete the study of A Brief Quadrivium in the course of a single school year, and suggestions for weekly assessments make it easy to plan tests and monitor student progress. The second component is directed to the continuing education of the teacher. Short essays explore the history, philosophy, and practice of mathematics. The themes of these essays are coordinated with the simultaneous mathematical work being done by students, allowing the teacher to instruct more reflectively. Some users of this book are confident in their grasp of mathematics and natural science. For them, the essays will clarify the unity of mathematical activity over time and reveal the old roots of new developments. Other users of this book, including some parents who school their children at home, find mathematics intimidating. The clear structure of the lesson plans, and the support of the companion essays, give them the confidence to lead students through a demanding but doable course of study. The British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood remarked that one finds in the ancient mathematicians not “clever schoolboys” but rather “Fellows of another College.” This guide invites all teachers of the quadrivium to join the enduring mathematical culture of Littlewood and his predecessors, and to witness for themselves the significance and vitality of a tradition as old as Pythagoras.
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