by Cathy Mazak | Apr 19, 2018 | academic writing
It’s that time of the semester. The beginning of the end. Courses ending mean gradings marathons. Academic year ending means committee meetings and reports. All of it together is the perfect storm for exhaustion and overwhelm. Your writing can get lost in the...
by Cathy Mazak | Apr 12, 2018 | academic writing
It’s that time of the year. The time where the semester is coming to a head. Time to do #allthegrading, #allthemeetings, #allthethings. You keep kicking yourself for assigning so much stuff due at the end of the semester. Everyone wants a piece of your time. It’s...
by Cathy Mazak | Apr 5, 2018 | academic project management, academic writing, time management
Most academic women I work with in my courses, writing retreats, and one-on-one writing strategy sessions cite time as their biggest obstacle to writing and publishing more. We are just too over-burdened with the sheer number of seemingly incongruous tasks that make...
by Cathy Mazak | Mar 22, 2018 | academic project management, academic writing, time management
Without a system for academic project management, you feel overwhelmed and exhausted all the time, no matter how much progress you’re actually making. Though you can create a system on paper, or even with G Suite or Dropbox, it may be helpful to use a project...
by Cathy Mazak | Mar 15, 2018 | academic project management, academic writing, publishing, time management
Academia is maybe the only career where you study for years and years, but your studies only partially prepare you for your actual job. Becoming an expert in your field does not necessarily mean that you are prepared for the day-to-day tasks of academia. For that, you...
by Cathy Mazak | Feb 22, 2018 | academic writing, time management
The two obstacles to writing more that I often hear in the I Should Be Writing Facebook group are: “I don’t know how to start” And, ironically: “I have a bunch of projects lying around that I can’t get finished.” Starting and finishing. The good news is, these are two...
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