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Dealing with the loss of a physical boundary between work and home

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

black scrabble letters arranged to spell out "work from home" during these pandemic times.

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Dealing with the loss of a physical boundary between work and home The pandemic has made us all hyper-aware of how much of what we’d come to tolerate as “just how things are” is actually deeply unacceptable. The pandemic has not created an impossible to … [Read more...] about Dealing with the loss of a physical boundary between work and home

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Developing a Practice, Ethos & Influences, Experiments, Self-care, Writing Tagged With: Academic Writing Studio, audio, audio version available, boundaries, Focus, priorities, rest, saying no, support, writing

You need a writing practice

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Jo VanEvery

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Writing is central to your scholarly work and identity. And yet, you struggle to find time and motivation to do it. I argue that it is more effective to focus on the process of writing as a whole and establish an effective writing practice that enables you to pursue your curiosity, create knowledge, … [Read more...] about You need a writing practice

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Developing a Practice, Writing Tagged With: Academic Writing Studio, audio, audio version available, Establishing A Writing Practice, Foundations of an Academic Writing Practice, writing, writing as process, writing as product

Thoughts on work, creativity, and “bureaucracy’s perverse attractions”

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

An article about university bureaucracy by Elaine Glaser in the Times Higher contained this thought provoking paragraph: In The Utopia of Rules, Graeber offers a convincing account of bureaucracy’s perverse attractions. It offers a chimera of absolute transparency, consistency and fairness. It is … [Read more...] about Thoughts on work, creativity, and “bureaucracy’s perverse attractions”

Filed Under: Academic Freedom, Ethos & Influences Tagged With: Academic Writing Studio, bureaucracy, creativity, Glaser, Graeber, Meeting With Your Writing, Times Higher Education, Utopia of Rules, work

Beginning of term chaos is temporary

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

It doesn't matter if this is your first year in the job or your 20th. The beginning of term is chaos. This is temporary. It will only last a week or two. Then you will settle into the normal rhythm of term time. Adjust your priorities During beginning of term chaos you can temporarily suspend … [Read more...] about Beginning of term chaos is temporary

Filed Under: Developing a Practice, Planning, Writing Tagged With: Academic Writing Studio, beginning of semester, beginning of term, boundaries, chaos, Foundations of an Academic Writing Practice, gremlins, priorities, scheduling

Are you resisting routine?

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

During last Thursday’s Meeting, one participant commented that she’d noticed an interesting benefit of A Meeting With Your Writing. Like so many of us, J is prone to changing her schedule a lot. This means making decisions about whether to write now or to do some other thing on the big list of … [Read more...] about Are you resisting routine?

Filed Under: Developing a Practice, Writing Tagged With: Academic Writing Studio, cognitive capacity, decisions, Meeting With Your Writing

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