Small, interactive workshops designed to fill the gaps in your training with personalized advice and Q&A.
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How to Manage Your Productivity Pipeline.
Join Kel in this small group workshop where she will walk you through the requirements for controlling your work flow and avoiding the sense that you are drinking from a fire hose. This workshop is based on Kel’s 15 years directing publications, working with writers as they planned and met constantly approaching deadlines. As with all of the How To workshops, this workshop is effective for scholars at every level, who are required to do produce than one thing at a time for success.
How to Situate Your Project
Think of your project like a building. And like a building, it does not sit alone. This workshop helps you find its place, answering the key questions you MUST answer in order to move on to conceptualizing your project. Where does your project sit in the landscape? What else is nearby? 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 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.
How to Make Your Claim: Why this? 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.
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.
How To Organize Your Scholarly Project in Five Easy (?) Steps
You have a kick ass academic project, and you know it’s good, but you can’t quite nail down how it all fits together. Can you distinguish your topic, your thesis, your findings, your disciplinary contribution? Could you deliver the elevator speech? In this workshop productivity coach Kel Weinhold walks you through the five key questions you need to be able to answer to get out of your own way and prove to editors (or your committee) that your work is ready for prime time. This workshop is based on Kel’s Unstuck: The Art of Productivity and is effective for scholars at every level, whether you are working on a dissertation, an article, a grant, or a book.
How To Outline. Organize your ideas; Organize your life! (Or at least your current project)
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 (This is NOT a workshop in old school rigid outlines!) This workshop is based on Kel’s 30+ years of editing where she moved authors forward in projects big and small. 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.
How to Edit
Do you know the two types 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 your prose!
How to Rethink Assignments and Grading (REDUCE YOUR WORKLOAD)
Everyone hates grading. That’s in part because the cost/benefit ration is WAY off. In this small workshop we take on how to make assessment worth the energy you put into it. For you and the student.