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In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for addressing technical writing blocks, i.e. situations where academic writers are stuck because they don't know how to solve a particular writing problem (i.e. how to determine what to include in a literature review). LINKS: How to Write a Journal Article in 12 Weeks (she also has resources at this link) How Scholars Write...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for preparing for a deliberate break from writing (a vacation, a long weekend, a conference, etc.) in order to return to writing sessions ready to write. She references the writing project management chart described in Inside Higher Education . To follow all of Defend & Publish podcasts, go to https://defendandpublish.com/pod...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for balancing grading filled weeks with writing progress. She references a signal verbs website

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes a process to carve up a dissertation or failed book project into several articles. The two articles that came out of this process (mentioned in the essay) are "WHat are Undergraduate Preservice Teachers Taught about the Teaching of Writing? " and "A Course No One Wants to Teach." There are screenshots of this process available at htt...

Episode 16: Writing a Writing Session to Plan In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends using a scheduled writing session to review deadlines, plan writing sessions, and look at forward events requiring writing. She references the Rachel Hollis Start Today priority planner she uses (Target no longer carries these, but there are plenty on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.htm...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends strategies to get the most writing accomplished in long writing sessions (i.e.) binges. She references the pomodoro technique and playlists on Spotify, including music to get motivated for writing ( Academic Writing Pregame 3 and Academic Writing Pregame 4 ) and writing music ( Writing Session 1 ).

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends four strategies for completing academic writing projects in those moments when children are not present. She references "Resetting Your Research Agenda" from Inside HIgher Educatio n and upcoming webinars at Defend&Publish. She encourages academic parents to share tips for writing with children at christine@defenandpublish.com

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends tools she uses to get some writing done with children at home. All of these tools are referenced: KiwiCrates Doodle Crates (see all types of crates for all ages here ), Glitzy Chemistry Set ,  DIY portable playsets , and Dollar Tree watercolor palettes , Andrea Pippens line at Five Below. She encourages academic parents to share tip...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends four strategies to write about your research and build your authority on your topic at the same time. She references building a personal website like this one ( https://christinetulley.wordpress.com/ ) and setting up a Google Scholar profile (see this link for tips: https://libguides.reading.ac.uk/boost/google-scholar-profile ) amon...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends using websites that offer academic writing templates to save time and get ideas and structure. She shows two template examples: the Academic Writing Toolkit  and a template from Raul Pacheco-Vega . NOTE: Academic Toolkit is hosted on Wix which has experienced outages this weekend. Templates in the video are posted here:  Article des...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends using the beginning of March as a time to "dig in" versus "giving up" because it seems like the end of the semester. She references a strategy in Joli Jensen's Write No Matter What! and a technique advocated by Chris Denecker in Digital Heuristics: By Chance and By Choice .

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley advocates spending 1-2 writing sessions a month on "interactive" reading in your discipline. Writing can be used as a tool to understand both new content and as draftwork for a writing project. Prelights , a preprints organization, is mentioned as an example of how scientists might write about new research.

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley explains how three types of emails can be used to move writing forward: 1) creating content in the body of an email that can then be transferred to a writing document 2) clarifying thinking and ideas 3) getting a response from a real-life audience with feedback that can then be used for writing. For more tips to remember as you email, check ou...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes three strategies for changing your approach to writing sessions including leaving a document up onscreen with short burst checkpoints, multitasking writing, and using Inkpad App  to audio compose notes. Inkpad is a free app that can share notes to email and translates notes to text. These notes can be copied and pasted into documents...

In this episode, Defend & Publish senior writing coach Christine Tulley talks about three cool tech tools every academic writer needs in their digital writing toolbox To see slides used during the podcast, click here . Here is the list of tech tools profiled 1) University of Manchester Academic Phrasebank ( http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/ ) 2) Writer's Diet (https://writersdiet.com/) 3) Sc...

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to make preparing for writing sessions more pleasurable in order to look forward to sitting down to write. The episode "Writing the Discipline, Writing Ourselves" on Rhetoricity is referenced. Bonus Spotify playlists Academic Writing Pregame I and Academic Writing Pregame 2 are referenced.

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to 1) extend high mental energy from a focus writing session into remaining writing sessions and 2) how to "play with paragraphs" This episode has bonus content - a handout on how to use Patrica Goodsen's paragraphing formula from Becoming an Academic Writer . Models are provided.

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to develop a writing rhythm by matching tasks to the types of mental time available in 8-10 hours of writing time per week. The Twitter discussion #whatfacultywritinglookslike is referenced.

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to categorize tasks for a priority writing project over six weeks. A bonus chart is available with this episode, click here

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley walks through a series of steps to reset academic writing and project management in 2021. Links to referenced material An interview about Christine's pre-pandemic writing habits, click here Information on how to "take stock" of all of your writing projects, click here