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
  • Part of longer conversation
  • P & T guidelines

to start...


Writing productivity comes down to

Structure 

&

Accountability

STRUCTURE

  • Making a schedule
  • Setting clear goals
  • 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 Technique
Write Now Academy

Structured or unstructured / F2F or remote, the goal =
sharing drafts
supporting 
creating / 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
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