Writing productivity
Dr. Michael Rifenburg
Department of English
CTLL Senior Faculty Fellow for Scholarly Writing
A comfort
"Productive writers don't have special gifts or special traits--they just spend their time writing and use this time for efficiently"
"Writing productivity is about actions that you aren't doing but could easily do"
--from How to Write A Lot: A Practical Guide to Academic Writing. Paul Silva, 2007.
Framework
- Positive
- Viewing yourself as a writer
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Part of longer conversation
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P & T guidelines
to start...
Writing productivity comes down to
Structure
&
Accountability
STRUCTURE
- Making a schedule
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Setting clear goals
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Keeping track of your work
- Rewarding yourself
--from How to Write A Lot: A Practical Guide to Academic Writing. Paul Silva, 2007.
All supported by a writing group.
STRUCTURE
30 minutes a day
+
4.5 days a week
=
180 pages of revised writing annually
--from Dr. Tara Gray,
Director of Teaching Academy, New Mexico St.
My Writing Space & Time
Venn Diagram
How might your teaching, research, and service flow together?
Can your students read an article that you are considering citing in your draft?
Can you bring new theories from your field to bear on your work revising upper division classes for your Department?
What are some readings, ideas, theories, practices that you can weave across your teaching, research, and service?
Assembly line
Can you construct a writing plan so that you always have various pieces at various stages?
For example, reading/brainstorming an article, drafting a conference paper, revising an article, completing page proofs on a book chapter?
How might various projects at various stages help establish and continue productivity?
ACCOUNTABILITY
Writing Groups
Shut Up & Write
Pomodoro TechniqueWrite Now Academy
Structured or unstructured / F2F or remote, the goal =
sharing draftssupportingcreating / connecting / cultivating
Fall schedule
Friday Writing Sessions & Shut Up & Write.
All on Zoom. All 1 hour.
(Google UNG CTLL Write@UNG)
FWS: Sept 17, Writing About Your Teaching
Oct 15, Framing a Literature Review
Nov 19, Methods, Methodology (and IRB)
Dec 3, Responding to Reviewer Feedback
SU&W
Oct. 5, Nov. 2
MORE REFERENCES
Belcher, W.L. (2009). Writing your journal article in 12 weeks.
Boice, R. (1990). Professors as writers: A self-help guide to productive writing.
Germano, W. (2005). From dissertation to book.
Germano, W. (2012). Getting it published.
Hayot, W. (2014). The elements of academic style.
Next year
Write Now Academy, hosted by Write@UNG initiative of CTLL
12 week program.
Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks.
In-person once a month; accountability updates weekly
DAH, GVL, OC
Diana Edelman
English Department
WriteIn
Fridays 1-5, GVL
Writing Groups
By mrifenburg
