Research Writing Quotes

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.

I discovered that I, a writer of what is known as creative nonfiction, could do the research and bridge the gap in my books and lectures through true storytelling. This is not 'dumbing down' or writing for eighth graders. It is writing for readers across cultures, age barriers, social and political landscapes.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.

I am not a journalist or an academic.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.