Love the blog? Then get the book. It also makes a great gift for all the struggling grad students in your life. (For bulk orders for use in classes, seminars, and workshops, please call Crown Publishing /Random House Customer Service at … [Read more...] about Pearls of Wisdom–The Blog
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Just One Thing: Managing your Momentum Pyramid
Other Ways to Support Your Writing A Bit of Motivation and WRITING Every M, W, TH A reboot of Writing in the Pandemic (Newly named A Bit of Motivation and Writing.) A 60-minute session combining coaching and writing. Here is the link to … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Managing your Momentum Pyramid
Introducing How To…
I made an incorrect assumption. I am a former journalism professor. Every term of my academic career, I spent hours and hours teaching students and scholars how to think about, conceptualize and produce written projects, including how to edit … [Read more...] about Introducing How To…
Covid & Conferences: What’s Left to Blog About?
Natasha Casey holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from McGill University. She is professor of communication at Lincoln Land Community College (Springfield, Illinois) and affiliated faculty at the Media Education Lab (University of Rhode Island). … [Read more...] about Covid & Conferences: What’s Left to Blog About?
Plan Now. Build Later
Join Me for a New -- and Free! -- Five Day Workshop: Blueprint Bootcamp ? Working on an academic project can feel like being asked to build a three-story house without a blueprint. How am I supposed to know what goes where and how … [Read more...] about Plan Now. Build Later
From Science Researcher to Academic Writing Coach – Guest Post
Dr Anna Clemens is an academic writing coach helping researchers write scientific papers faster and actually get them published in their target journals. She has a PhD in Chemistry and is the creator of the Researchers’ Writing … [Read more...] about From Science Researcher to Academic Writing Coach – Guest Post
Just One Thing: Rewrite for Accuracy
Continuing to talk about distorted thinking. Last week I wrote about beginning to challenge distorted thinking by asking simple questions. If you missed it, you can read it here. This week’s Just One Thing takes us one step further with replacing … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Rewrite for Accuracy
Q&A on Leaving Academia: Where Do I Start?
We're starting a new Q and A series on leaving academia. Please send your questions to postaccareers@gmail.com! For more concrete help, join the Professor Is Out private FB group, and consider signing up for our new Art of Leaving self-directed … [Read more...] about Q&A on Leaving Academia: Where Do I Start?
Just One Thing: Investigate your thoughts!
Welcome again to my weekly series Just One Thing. Each week, I offer you just one thing you can practice each day that will improve your creative output. The topic I want to deal with in the next few posts is what American psychologist Albert Ellis … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Investigate your thoughts!
Ableism and the “Post-Pandemic” Rollback of Extensions
by Holly Genovese Holly Genovese is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at UT Austin, with graduate portfolios in both Black Studies and Women's and Gender Studies. Her work focuses on African American aesthetic resistance to incarceration in the … [Read more...] about Ableism and the “Post-Pandemic” Rollback of Extensions
Just One Thing: Embrace your mistakes
Welcome again, to my new Just One Thing series. Each week, I offer you just one thing you can practice each day that will improve your creative output. Today's JOT practice: Embrace your mistakes. Yep. You read it right. I am asking you to … [Read more...] about Just One Thing: Embrace your mistakes