What No-one Tells You About Academic Writing with Anne Wilson
About this episode
Anne Wilson discusses the complexities of academic writing and offers insights and tips for scholars.
Anne Wilson is an award-winning scriptwriter, journalist and careers counsellor. After doing an MSc and a PhD in social psychology at the LSE, and publishing a book on children's identity, she became a freelance journalist, writing for publications such as Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, Good Housekeeping and the Guardian. Anne moved on to writing for screen media and has won numerous awards for her films in the corporate sector. She has also published two crime novels, featuring Sara Kingsley, a single-mother detective — Truth or Dare and Governing Body — both published by the Women's Press. Anne is committed to teaching and mentoring and in 2010 she started offering private careers counselling to new graduates as well as advising university applicants on their personal statements. She became a Royal Literary Fellow and, most recently, has been supporting students at Brunel University. In this episode we tackle the mystique surrounding academic writing - what it actually is and why academics are vague about what 'good' looks like in their discipline. Anne explains how writing is dynamic and how it changes from the starting out phase to writing up; and why your…
People in this episode
Host: Emma Brodzinski
Guest: Anne Wilson
Topics covered
- academic writing
- neurodivergent scholars
- careers counselling
- writing dynamics
- literature review
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: LSE, Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, the Guardian, Women's Press, Brunel University
Books & works: Truth or Dare, Governing Body
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