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AdviceHow to Have a Productive Yet Restorative Summer
Advice from a productivity expert on balancing work and play in the months before another academic year begins. -
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How to Be Yourself on the Page
You may understand the power of first-person writing, but can you wield it gracefully? -
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How to Become a Mobile-Mindful Teacher
Instead of giving in to frustration over cellphones in the fall, maybe it’s time to put them to good use in class. -
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Multitasking Is the Enemy of Academic Productivity
Faculty members pay a price for all that juggling of research, teaching, and service. -
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Scholars Talk Writing: Roxane Gay
“Allow yourself to be terrified to take risks and take those risks anyway.” -
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‘Help! My Dissertation Supervisor Is Smothering Me!’
Advice from an academic-productivity expert on how to cope with poor advising from your mentor. -
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Can the ‘Pitch Deck’ Help Academics?
You can opt to bore your audience silly with dense PowerPoint slides — or, you can adapt a popular business technique to better make your case. -
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Why Your College Needs a Faculty Writing Room
How an opportunity to write separately but in one place has created a vibrant, visible scholarly community at a small college. -
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‘Why Do I Set Writing Deadlines That I Can’t Keep?’
Advice from an academic-productivity expert on how to realistically assess how long a manuscript will take you to finish. -
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Take Your Words From Lecture to Page
What compelling lecturers do, and how their techniques can translate to good writing.
