Helping Scholars Finish Strong First Books
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This post is the fourth in a series designed to help first-time academic book authors find time to write their book during the semester. In part 3, I told you how the container routine will help …
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I work with junior humanities and qualitative social science faculty on tackling their book revisions. Writing an academic book, though, is not just a matter of mastering its content, form, …
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This post is part 2 of my 10-part series, in which I tackle one of the trickiest problems for first-time academic book authors: finding the time to write your book when the semester gets hectic. Next …
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Over the past year, I've committed myself to helping junior scholars in humanities and social sciences tackle their first book project. Many book-specific tasks trip these scholars up, especially …
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In previous posts, I show humanities faculty why and how to monitor negative writing behaviors and how to develop an action plan to develop better habits. But thoughts are just as much a part of …
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Here's the setup. Researchers (Lowe and Crawford) wanted to test whether intuitions or further reflection proved more accurate. So, they gave students a test consisting only of true/false questions. …
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You will likely fall into one of two camps. If you're in the first, you might find yourself frustrated and disappointed about your productivity. You know you can write more (or "be more productive"), …
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Are you plagued by an inner editor? It can take many forms. First, there's the critical voice that shouts: "This isn't analytical enough! What are you even trying to say? This isn't new." There's also …
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I'm a big fan of setting goals to help make scholarly writing less daunting. I've encouraged you to set product-focused weekly goals and set goals for and track your individual writing sessions. But …
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It happened when you were up against a deadline, and you had no other option. You sat down and thought, "I don't know what I'm saying! How can I write if I don't know what I'm saying!" But with the …
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In previous posts, I showed you how to get your summer off to the right start by making a schedule, time map, and setting a summer start date; determining what your writing will look like; and …
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Faculty: do you plan to use this summer to make headway on your writing projects? Have you fantasized for months about all you'll finally be able to write once your classes end? Did you (or will you …
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