Centering your writing: Think about your academic activities in terms of “pay-off”
In the culture of academia, we’re not really supposed to think about money. Yes, we are encouraged to go out and bring big money grants into our university, but we are not supposed to think about paying ourselves, or working for a certain amount of money. This causes...
Three Core Shifts That Will Change Your Writing Attitude
When you’re pulled in a thousand directions, it’s your writing that suffers. With so many urgent tasks sucking away your time (and energy), the week goes by and you feel like you didn’t get anything done. There are many obstacles to writing more: teaching, meetings,...
How to be “Serially” Successful in Academia
I read an excellent article in Inside Higher Ed about a panel at the Association of American Colleges and Universities discussing changes that university administrators were implementing in order to reduce faculty workload. The idea (which is a very good one) is to...
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