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Developing a Practice: Writing

Writing is central to your scholarly work and identity. And yet, you struggle to find time and motivation to do it. Posts in this category focus on the process of writing as a whole. They will help you establish an effective writing practice that enables you to pursue your curiosity, create knowledge, and communicate that knowledge through publications.

You Need a Writing Practice is a good place to start.

Using all 3 types of writing time will help you imagine how you can fit writing in even when you are also juggling teaching, meetings, and so on. It also helps you understand how your writing practice may shift with the seasons of the academic year.

Making writing less scary: Develop a habit

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Jo VanEvery 3 Comments

There is no point thinking too much about the publishing part until you have actually written something. Writing is a habit. The more you write the easier it is to write. And the better your writing becomes. Like any habit, you can develop it. In this post, I talk about what developing a writing habit might look like in practical terms.

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Getting comments on your draft

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

This post inspired by a tweet: Is it cruel for me to ask people to read and comment on a draft article during the summer? — Philippe Lagassé (@pmlagasse) July 25, 2012 My immediate reaction is “Hell No!” but I can see how it might feel cruel. After all summer is the one time of […]

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An interesting tactic for managing ideas

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

We all know that research produces more questions than answers. You can quickly get overwhelmed with those questions and lose the focus necessary to finish work on one of those questions. The best advice I got as a newish PhD student (some time ago), was to make a file for all the things I would […]

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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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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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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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