Throughout this series, we’ve explored how content design shapes the way readers encounter scholarship:   This final post brings these ideas together by considering what they do for a work’s credibility. Readers begin forming impressions about a publication long before they…

In earlier posts, we considered cognitive load and the non-linear ways readers engage with text. Readers rarely move line by line; they scan for relevance and rely on cues to decide where to focus. In this post, we turn to visuals in scholarship, which carry intellectual weight in…

In my last blog post, I touched on the publishing process as a form of community-building, during which many hands touch a piece of writing before it’s released to the public. As I continue my publishing journey as an intern with the Center, I’ve become…

Writing has always seemed like some mystical, enigmatic force to me. As a child, I used to read my favorite books and watch my friends develop elaborate creative writing pieces of their own, and I would wonder how such inspiration…