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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. -
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A Winter Break Reading List on Skills for Scholars
Looking for a quick read between semesters and a little career boost? Here are some book recommendations. -
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7 Tips for Scholars on Writing for Nonacademics
To reach a wider audience, try to unlearn a few habits. -
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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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The Virtues of a Daily Virtual Writing Group
How a dozen academics found a way to forge good writing habits, not to mention friendship, via Zoom.