How to write an academic blog post – Author Services

Blogs can be a great way for academic authors to reach audiences they might not otherwise have access to. Read on to learn how to write an academic blog post, and discover expert tips.

Why write academic blog posts?

“Blogging has become a really huge [and] popular way of disseminating research […], talking to each other as a community, and sharing knowledge.”

Inger Mewburn, Managing editor of the Thesis Whisperer blog

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There are many benefits of writing academic blog posts, they:

• Provide an opportunity to test an idea, concept or style of presentation. This can help you improve your communication skills, and the way you present information.

• Help your research reach a wider audience, including the general public. Blog posts make your research sharable on social media (such as Twitter and Facebook), helping to drive people to your research, increase readership, and eventually citations.

• Allow you to use your writing skills to extract the essential information from your paper or thought process, to create a concise, readable blog post. This is a very valuable skill for researchers to have.

Of course, there are also some reasons people decide against writing academic blog posts. Blogging can be time-consuming, especially if you’re the one setting up and running the blog. If you’re worried about your lack time resource, you could consider pitching your idea to a well-established blog. This way you would write an individual post, rather than regularly writing blog posts to build up your blog library.