The Academic Writing Blueprint

Clara Dearmas is an academic writing coach and educator who has spent more than fifteen years helping students turn blank pages into finished papers. She earned her doctorate in composition and rhetoric and has taught first-year writing, research methods, and thesis seminars at several universities, where she also directed a campus writing center. In that work she read thousands of drafts — strong ones, terrifying first attempts, and everything between — which taught her what actually separates papers that struggle from papers that earn high marks. It is rarely talent. It is process.

Her teaching and coaching focus on demystifying academic writing: how to find an arguable question, build a thesis worth defending, read sources as conversation partners, and revise the way practiced writers revise. She has helped undergraduates, graduate students, and early-career researchers complete honors theses, journal submissions, and dissertations across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

*The Academic Writing Blueprint* distills that experience into a single, practical system. Clara writes from the conviction that writing is a teachable craft, not a mysterious gift — and she teaches, coaches, and writes from that belief every day.