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Healthy Academic Writing Habits for the Long Haul
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(24 ratings)
129 students

Healthy Academic Writing Habits for the Long Haul

Attack big writing projects AND preserve your sleep and sanity
Created byDr. Daveena Tauber
Last updated 2/2018
English
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What you'll learn

  • Drill into "writers' block" to understand the real nature of your specific writing challenges
  • Work with rather than against your cognitive needs
  • Learn how to set goals and track your work in ways that help you make concrete progress
  • Create rituals that train you to transition into writing
  • Minimize and deal with distraction while writing
  • Integrate writing into your daily life so that you don't need to set aside huge chunks of time
  • Learn how to stop and restart the writing process without so much procrastination and pain

Course content

2 sections • 7 lectures • 40m total length

  • Unit 1: Introduction3:05

    Explore how graduate writing instruction and access to writing centers support scholars across disciplines, and adopt strategies for the three stages of writing: starting up, persisting, and stopping and restarting.

  • Unit 2: Sources of Writing Challenge9:28

    Explore common sources of writing challenges, from writer’s block and existential doubts to neurodiversity and executive functioning. Learn to diagnose and address them with practical strategies.

  • Unit 3: Setting Goals That Set You Up for Success4:12

    Set up your writing for success with dedicated blocks and a pay-yourself-first mindset. Use layered goals—from term to daily—tracked with tools, and limit tasks to two to four per day.

  • Unit 4: Start Writing!3:50

    Organize your writing space and set conditions for success before you begin. Align tasks like content generation, reading, and data analysis with your optimal time of day and noise level.

  • Unit 5: Keep Writing!7:05

    Develop sustainable writing habits by warming up with free writing, managing attention, and balancing reading with writing through a consistent note-taking system, outtakes files, and collaborative writing sessions.

  • Unit 6: Stop and Start Again (Repeat)9:01

    Stop and restart frequently with short intervals like pomodoro sessions to keep a smooth writing process, and prefer snap writing over binge writing while using retreats to protect well-being.

Requirements

  • Come as you are!

Description

This course is for academic writers who want to tackle big writing projects like a thesis, dissertation, article, or book without losing sleep or sanity. Join me if you are ready to cultivate sustainable writing habits that will serve you well from your first paper to your latest book. If your last-minute, high-pressure writing strategies are not working any more, this workshop is for you. Let me teach you strategies for thinking differently about your writing challenges, transitioning into and out of writing time, setting goals, and tracking your progress through each project. Recorded live, this workshop comes with exercises and great resource links to help you move forward one page at a time.

“This course really motivated me and identified some key areas to work on. I'm looking forward to putting your advice into action.”   --Kathryn, Ph.D. student, University of Alaska

"The progress sheet and time tracking sheet are very helpful and are making me be vigilant about how I use my time. I am really appreciative."  –Becky, Assistant Professor, University of Texas

“You helped me get over my fear of getting my butt in the chair.” --Danielle, Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

"What I value from this workshop are some of the generalizable writing tips, the suggestions for scheduling both writing and structured time for feedback/support. I really appreciated hearing about some of the tools/software programs that can help keep track of goals, progress, and success in writing/project management." --Marissa, Ph.D. student, Portland State University

Who this course is for:

  • Academic writers who are working on significant projects such as papers, theses, dissertations, articles, or books

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