In Becoming an Expert Writer, Dana Lynn Driscoll explores the core concepts that create publication expertise. Informed by groundbreaking studies of successful emerging and expert writers as they seek to publish their work, this research-based guide illuminates the often-invisible dimensions of writing for publication. Driscoll describes strategies that move beyond conventional advice, allowing writers to craft a holistic process and relationship with their work. Each chapter integrates empirical research with reflective and practical activities, guiding writers from idea generation and flow to identity development and mentoring. The result is a transformative resource for developing sustainable, meaningful, and expert writing practices.

Dana Lynn Driscoll is Professor of Writing and Founding Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has published widely on writing for publication, learning theory, writing transfer, expertise development, and supporting advanced writers in a range of disciplinary fields, including those in technology, science, and medicine. She teaches doctoral courses in writing for publication, quantitative and qualitative research methods, writing centers, and composition pedagogy in the doctoral program in Composition and Applied Linguistics at IUP. She has been the recipient of numerous field-wide grants and awards, including the 2023 Best WAC Article Focused on Research award and the 2012 International Writing Center Association’s Article of the Year award.