Aug. 14, 2025
Write Like You Teach, with James Lang
James Lang shares about his latest book, Write Like You Teach, on episode 583 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

Answers on their own are not interesting. They become interesting when we know the questions behind them.
-James Lang
When you take a reader on a journey, as the reader works through an essay or book that you’ve written, they spend a lot of time with you.
-James Lang
Be attentive to the person that you are on the page to the reader.
-James Lang
Start right now. That’s the most important thing.
-James Lang
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Resources
- Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience by James M. Lang
- Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It by James M. Lang
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang
- Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty by James M. Lang
- The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
- The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
- How Can Educators Teach Critical Thinking? by Daniel T. Willingham (American Educator)
- James M. Lang’s official website
- Susan Orlean’s official website
- Scrivener, a popular writing and revision tool for long-form projects
- The Opposite of Cheating from the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Series (University of Oklahoma Press)
- University of Oklahoma Press – Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed series
- Christine Tulley
- The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource, by Chris Hayes
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryanne Wolf
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