Small, interactive workshops designed to fill the gaps in your training with personalized advice and Q&A.
All of Kel’s “How To…” sessions are offered on our private Mighty Network. Join the network for free to see the current listings and get other productivity advice for free! (see note at bottom)
Here is what is available!
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How to Re-think Syllabi and Assignments and REDUCE Grading
Are you like every other person charged with grading? Overloaded? Bored? Frustrated? Avoidant? If you hate grading, certainly one of the reasons is that the cost/benefit ration is WAY off. Neither you nor the student can see the value of all the hours you put in.
In this small workshop Kel brings together the work of three leaders in syllabi, assignment and assessment to create an approach that will make this part of your job worth the energy you put into it. For you and the student.
Reminder: You must join the network to access the course registration.
REGISTER FOR RECORDING HERE
How to Identify & Make Your Claim
(Why You? Why Now?)
Getting published is not just about solid research. You need to make a case for the why of it, the why now of it, and the why you of it. Your claim creates the urgency to get editors to decide instead of defer. It gives the editor confidence in your involvement in the dialogue, how urgent that involvement is, how essential to continuing the dialogue your work is.
In this small workshop you will learn to prove to the gatekeeper:
- How publishing/accepting your work is a good choice.
- How making the decision to publish/accept your work should happen soon rather than later.
- How including your UNIQUE perspective is a critical addition to conversations in the field.
Join Kel in this small group workshop where she will walk you through the making a claim and proving why your work needs to be published NOW.
Reminder: You must join the network to access the course registration.
REGISTER FOR RECORDING HERE
How to Situate Your Work
Think of your project like a house you are wanting to build in a neighborhood with fairly prescribed building codes. If it is going to be approved, it needs to fit. This workshop helps you find your project’s place, answering the key questions you MUST answer in order to move on to conceptualizing your project. What landscape does your project inhabit? What do you need to do to “fit” in the place you have decided to build? Kel will walk you through the steps to find all the answers you need to be part of the intellectual neighborhood you’ve chosen.
As with all of the How To… workshops, this workshop is effective for scholars at every level, whether you are working on a dissertation, an article, a grant, or a book.
Reminder: You must join the network to access the course registration.
REGISTER FOR RECORDING HERE
How to Outline
Are you trying to build a house without a plan? Do you spend your time choosing paint colors when you don’t even have walls to put them on? If your house is your project and your paint colors are your sentences, you are not alone. Lots of academics waste time and energy sweating the small stuff before they have figured out the big stuff that matters. And they do it that way because outlining is HARD! Why wouldn’t it be? Outlining means sorting out your big ideas and getting them in a logical order that supports your main assertion. That’s a heavy lift.
Join Kel in this small group workshop where she will walk you through the key parts of successful outlining. NOTE: This is NOT a workshop in old school rigid outlines. Learn how to outline for your brain!
Reminder: You must join the network to access the course registration.
REGISTER FOR RECORDING HERE
How to Write a Sh*tty First Draft
Do you get caught mired in the details of sentences the minute you start. Do fret about having a perfect Introduction or an unassailable argument. Here’s the thing, while the first draft is the stage where you develop a complete first version of your work, it is NOT the stage at which you perfect your work. In fact it’s the stage where you find the gaps and glitches and tings that need to change in your outline.
Join Kel as she walks you through to do’s and don’ts of your first draft. (Here’s a hint: None of the do’s involves editing!)
As with all of the How To… workshops, this workshop is effective for scholars at every level, whether you are working on a dissertation, an article, a grant, or a book.
Reminder: You must join the network to access the course registration.
REGISTER FOR RECORDING HERE
How to Edit
Do you know the two types and five steps of editing? Can you tell which of the five steps of editing you are engaged in? Academic writers spend (and waste) an inordinate amount of energy trying to do everything all at once everywhere. Nowhere is that hodgepodge approach more destructive than in conflating and co-mingling the different stages of editing, especially when it takes place when you are WRITING.
Join Kel in this small group workshop to learn the two types and five steps of editing. Clean up your process and get out of the muck.
Reminder: You must join the network to access the course registration.
REGISTER HERE
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