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Developing a Practice

Image of person at a desk writingYour academic life is more than a string of articles published, classes taught, and meetings attended. You write because this is how you articulate and develop your ideas. You publish to communicate those ideas to others. Posts in this category help you develop the practices you need to do the work you love well without burning out or compromising your values.

You Need a Writing Practice is a good place to start to investigate the Writing subcategory.

Juggling 101: Elements of a good plan is a good place to start investigating the Planning subcategory.

What’s Your Research Work Flow?

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

So many academics complain about not having enough time for research. This can be incredibly frustrating, especially if you have research that you really want to be doing. Often, we focus on how to manage non-research tasks to make more time for research. But maybe thinking about how you use your research time might be helpful, […]

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Write Early, Write Often

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

An excellent post about writing, especially for those with heavy teaching and family commitments. She offers 4 rules: Write Early, Write Often | jliedl.ca.

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Prove Them Right

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Prove them right This post by Charlie Gilkey applies to a lot of academics: Prove Them Right. What about all the people who said you could do it? The people who always saw more in you than you ever saw in yourself. The ones who caught you when you […]

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From Conference Presentation to Journal Article

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

A conference presentation is an important stage in the development of your research. It allows you to get feedback, helps you refine your arguments, and begins to build an audience for your work. Now comes the hard part: actually sitting down to turn that excellent first draft into something good enough to submit to a journal. […]

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Are you valuing your time?

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

It is really easy to overvalue tasks that other people ask you to do or see you doing. And to undervalue the tasks you do alone. Writing happens alone. Sometimes it doesn’t even look like work, especially when you have to do a lot of thinking. It takes a long time to get a product […]

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Hook and Eye: Guest Post: Recycling is not a bad thing

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Are you worried that you are “recycling” your work? Are you trying to make sure each paper and presentation is completely new and unique? You are not alone. But you are probably more at risk of not publishing enough and not reaching the people you want to reach, than you are of repeating yourself. I […]

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In lieu of my own post on writing

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Inger Mewburn at The Thesis Whisperer wrote a brilliant post recently on getting writing finished. The ‘Out The Door’ rant « The Thesis Whisperer In his superb book “Writing for social scientists” (which should be renamed “Writing for everyone”), Howard Becker talks about the importance of being the kind of writer who can get stuff […]

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Getting useful feedback on your conference paper

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

There is plenty of evidence that conference presentations don’t necessarily get you any useful feedback.

But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t.
You have to build an audience

Do you tell people you know are going to be at the conference when you are presenting? Do you ask them to come? Do you tell them you would like feedback?

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How scholarship is evaluated

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 11 Comments

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · How scholarship is evaluated The quality and impact/significance of your research is usually evaluated based on where you publish. The advent of new outlets for your scholarly work has raised some interesting issues about how this is done. A  blog exchange about Melville scholarship (read the comments, and also […]

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How I help with writing

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

A hadn’t been publishing. He wrote regularly despite a full teaching load. But he wasn’t getting things finished. And he wasn’t submitting them. Writing was an intellectually satisfying process for A. In thinking about why he didn’t finish he realized that he wasn’t motivated by the product — an article or a book — but […]

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Permission to think big thoughts

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

If you don’t make and protect time for thinking big thoughts, writing, and other research tasks no one else will.

Research doesn’t always look like real work, especially to outsiders, but it is. In this post, I give you some tips on valuing that work for yourself and on finding time to do it regularly.

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Permission to refuse service/admin requests

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Jo VanEvery 3 Comments

One difference between an academic career and other forms of employment is that you are often left to manage your workload yourself. The basics are decided by someone else, but you are always “free” to take on more.

Saying “no” is hard. Are you saying yes just to avoid the discomfort?

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