Five Myths about Getting Writing Done
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...
What Should Going Up for Tenure Feel Like?
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...
How to Move Past Fear in Academic Writing
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...
Changing Campus Culture
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...
Three Take-Aways from “Deep Work” for Academic Writers
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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