Rebecca Schuman
Rebecca Schuman is an academic productivity consultant and a professor pro tempore of English, German, and Journalism at the University of Oregon. Ask her a question on academic writing or productivity via X, Facebook, or email. She is on the social-media platform X @pankisseskafka.
Stories by this Author
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Advice‘It’s 300 Words — How Long Could It Take?’ and Other Writing Traps
Advice from a productivity expert on shortcuts for drafting conference papers and abstracts. -
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How 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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‘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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‘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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Beating Yourself Up Is Labor, but It’s Not Work
Advice from an academic-productivity expert on how to extinguish self-defeating talk about your research abilities. -
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3 Practical Approaches to Writing While Teaching
Here’s how to make time for your manuscript during the academic year. -
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How to Write Around the Haters in Your Head
An academic-productivity specialist tackles readers’ questions on coping with harsh criticism and other work conundrums. -
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A Realistic Work Strategy for the Long-Covid Crowd
An academic-writing coach answers readers’ questions on coping with deadlines amid lingering health issues. -
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What’s Your Angle? And How to Proceed if You Can’t Decide
An academic-writing coach answers readers’ questions on choosing an argument and paring an overly long draft. -
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When to Step Away From the Revision
An academic-writing coach answers readers’ questions on how to stop overworking a manuscript, or avoiding one.
