has been the subject of scientific study since the 1970s, [3] it is only recently that a more complete understanding of the kinetic complexities of the polymerization system has been realized. [4,5] Measurement of the individual rate coefficients for radical polymerization of water soluble monomers is notoriously challenging due to high viscosity and a pH and monomer concentration dependency on the rate coefficients. [6,7] As a result, the studies in the literature are often limited to measuring the batch conversion profiles at low monomer concentration to deduce the ratio of k p /k t 1/2 from the well-known expression for polymerization rate written assuming the IUPAC convention for termination (, where [P] is the total polymer radical concentration)(1)While the rate of polymerization is expected to be first order with respect to monomer concentration (Equation (1)), studies with AM yield a reaction order between 1.24 and A kinetic model for the radical homopolymerization of acrylamide in aqueous solution is developed, incorporating propagation and termination rate coefficients as functions of monomer concentration and including the formation and reaction of midchain radicals based on the insights and measured rate coefficients from recent pulsed-laser studies. The model successfully represents the batch conversion profiles measured using an in situ NMR technique between 40 and 70 °C with initial monomer concentrations of 5 to 40 wt%, as well as the associated polymer molar mass distributions. In particular, the model captures the decreased rate that occurs at lowered monomer concentrations as a result of the formation of less-active midchain radicals by backbiting. Previous literature data are also well represented by the model.