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November is Academic Writing Month #AcWriMo (formerly Academic Book Writing...
A few years ago, I thought of using NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, which happens in November) as a driver to force me to complete my academic books (all four of which are at various stages of...
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Insights I gained on academic writing by doing #AcWriMo in November 2012
This year, I participated in #AcWriMo (an effort initiated by Dr. Charlotte Frost to encourage academics to focus almost solely on writing, I assume with the intent that their productivity goes up). I...
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On discipline, focus and writing every day in academic writing: My 2013 goals
When I set out to write my Research Plan for 2013 and my Research Trajectory for 2013-2016, I decided to write down one word that would establish my goals for the year. This year, the word was FOCUS. I...
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Improving your academic writing: My top 10 tips
The topic of academic writing has been popular in the blogosphere and Twittersphere in the past couple of weeks. I think it all came from Stephen Walt’s Foreign Policy piece “On Writing Well“. Several...
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My Top 10 academic productivity tips, or how I submitted 5 pieces in 3 weeks
In the past 3 weeks, I have submitted a total of 2 journal manuscripts (two in Spanish, one in English), 1 conference paper (in English), 1 book chapter (in Spanish) and one co-authored grant proposal...
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Dealing with rejection in academic writing (and academia, in general)
Nobody that I know likes rejection. I’ll have to admit that I was very lucky through high school, undergraduate and graduate school. I worked hard, and that work led to high grades (I completed my PhD...
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Why didn’t I do #AcWriMo this year: On binge-writing and daily discipline
Given how often my Top 10 Tips for Academic Writing get retweeted, promoted and Googled, you would have thought I would have jumped at the possibility of doing #AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month, which...
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Last week I participated in a 3-day long workshop on transboundary water governance and transboundary river basins (I will be writing about it later this week or today). I really enjoyed having an...
View ArticleStrategies to kickstart your academic writing
I’ve just finished two more pieces (this week), a conference paper and a journal article, that I needed to have done by the end of the week. I still have four additional pieces to write, and I’m...
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Five strategies to get your academic writing “unstuck”
When I blog about academic writing, I do so from the vantage point of someone who does it on a daily basis. Someone who recognizes his own time limitations (because I’m pretty busy), and his challenges...
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#GetYourManuscriptOut or “how to fight procrastination in academic writing...
Most people who read my blog on a regular basis know that I write every single day of the week, either 2 hours in a row (from 4:00am to 6:00am), or in 4 blocks of 30 minutes every day, to ensure at...
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On writing every day for two hours #AcWri
Most people who know my schedule know that I wake up at the ungodly hour of 4:00am to write on an everyday basis (I was doing 4:45am for a while but then I realized I needed the additional 45 minutes...
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When does it make sense to write a book chapter instead of a journal article?
I never claim to have done the right thing in academia because I think what I share on my blog and my Twitter account is what I have done wrong so that nobody else repeats my mistakes. One of the...
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Why you should consider doing Academic Writing Month throughout November 2014...
In a lovely conversation with my niece (who is studying Political Science at a prestigious US university), she said that she admired professors for all the writing and multitasking that we do...
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My #AcWri strategies: Write memos about readings and about research
When I was in undergraduate (I studied chemical engineering), it was bizarre for my male colleagues that I would have such neat printing and that my notes were always drawn in different colors and...
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My #AcWri Strategies: Write reflective memos
A number of scholars have asked me what do I meant by a “reflective memo” in my previous post, so I figured I should probably post an example. This is a specific memo on a reading, and I will post a...
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#MyAcWriStrategies: Write first, edit later, and edit by hand
Perhaps the weirdest thing about the way in which I conduct research and I write is that I find that the old-fashioned way works best. For me, doing everything online (on the screen) doesn’t work. I am...
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What counts as academic writing? #AcWri
TW: On the use of the “binge” word: I disapprove of the actual use as it will be shown in my post, but I would like to acknowledge that the reason it is problematic is that it links a real eating...
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8 tips to write a research paper from start to finish (relatively quick and...
I promised a few weeks ago that I would blog about how I write a paper from start to finish. I was hoping to have screenshots of every stage of my paper writing, but obviously doing my own research,...
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How to do a literature review: Citation tracing, concept saturation and...
There is a number of academics (and coaches and consultants) who have both a strong presence online and do a marvellous job of writing excellent blog posts as guidance for undergraduate, graduate...
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