The Scholar's Pen: Write Research Papers That Get Published and Praised

Kerry Newell is a scholar, educator, and writer whose career has been devoted to helping students bridge the gap between learning to write and writing to learn. With over fifteen years of experience teaching academic writing at the college and graduate level, Kerry has guided thousands of students through their first research papers, senior theses, master's projects, and doctoral dissertations. Their approach combines rigorous attention to the craft of scholarly prose with a deep respect for the intellectual potential of every writer who walks into their classroom or opens their books.

Kerry holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where their dissertation examined how graduate students across the disciplines develop scholarly identities through the writing practices of their fields. That research spanning the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences forms the interdisciplinary foundation of The Scholar's Pen. Prior to their doctoral work, Kerry earned an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa and taught composition at several community colleges, an experience that shaped their conviction that excellent academic writing instruction should be accessible to all students, not just those at elite institutions.

Kerry's scholarly work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Written Communication, Research in the Teaching of English, and The WAC Journal, among other venues. They have served on the editorial board of Across the Disciplines and as a manuscript reviewer for multiple academic publishers. Their research focuses on writing transfer how students apply what they learn in writing courses to the writing they do in their majors and careers and on the pedagogical practices that make such transfer more likely. That research directly informs the practical, strategy driven approach of The Scholar's Pen.

In addition to their academic publications, Kerry has led faculty development workshops on writing instruction at more than thirty colleges and universities across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. These workshops, which bring together faculty from disciplines as varied as history, biology