by Cathy Mazak | Apr 25, 2019 | academic writing, mindset, publishing, time management
Are you making these three writing mistakes? Academic women are a diverse and electrifying group. I truly get so much energy from interacting with you all, both in and out of my own field of study. But the more academic women I get to know, the more I realize that...
by Cathy Mazak | Apr 18, 2019 | academic writing, mindset, publishing, time management
As you close your laptop on turning in grades, set up your email auto-responder so that students know you are unreachable and dream about all those projects that you’re going to finish over the break, it might be time for a little reality check. Let me guess: you have...
by Cathy Mazak | Mar 14, 2019 | mindset
Going up for tenure brings up all the feelings. Maybe the most salient one is fear. Fear that you won’t get tenured, which would mean going on the (also scary) market, moving to another town, uprooting your family. Fear that your sneaky suspicion that your colleagues...
by Cathy Mazak | Jan 10, 2019 | academic writing, mindset
Academic writing is an act of creation. It is bringing new ideas into the world while dexterously connecting to ideas that came before yours. It is representing years of deep work succinctly and compellingly on a page. It is inspiring further creation and knowledge...
by Cathy Mazak | Dec 20, 2018 | mindset
What does it take to change the campus culture? Seth Godin sums up culture in the simple phrase: People like us do things like this. Translate that into campus culture and we get: Academics like us do things like this. Academics like us… …publish in the top...
by Cathy Mazak | Nov 29, 2018 | academic writing, mindset
I found a new podcast that I love: #AmWriting. It has really put wind in my sails about a book I’ve been brewing on the back burner for about a year. I am so inspired by the completely relatable podcast hosts Jess and K.J., smart women, authors and moms, and have been...
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