November is Academic Writing Month 2022 on SAGE Methodspace
Find food for thought and strategies for action this AcWriMo on SAGE Methodspace. We will feature new posts, a webinar, video interviews, open-access resources, and materials from previous years’ AcWriMos. Use this link to discover the unfolding series. Use the code MSPACEQ422 for a 20% discount on SAGE research methods books, valid from 1 October – 31 December.
Week 1: Get Unstuck and Plan
Be motivated: Commit to the purpose for your academic writing project
Get unstuck: Recognize obstacles and plan to overcome them Register now for the webinar, How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck. We feature Becoming the Writer You Already Are by Michelle Boyd.
Week 2: Manage Your Writing Projects
Get organized: Tame the details, put workable systems in place
Use the right tools: Find the technologies that work for you
Insights and tips: Video interview with Linda Bloomberg, featuring Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation
Week 3: Stand for Intellectual Freedom
Be aware: Consider external factors influencing your research and writing
Get engaged: Understand risks and opportunities, be a social science advocate
Insights and tips: video interview with Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna Redden, Emiliano Treré featuring Data Justice
Week 4: Be Accountable
Be accountable: Find or create your writing circle
Be prepared: Get ready for others’ critiques and reviews
Insights and tips:
Kindness and Collaboration: Janet Salmons interviews Narelle Lemon
Guest posts from Nathan Durdella, featuring Conducting Research with Human Participants
Week 5: Publish and Contribute
Reach your readers: Communicate findings in clear, usable ways
Contribute to the field: Find and fill gaps in the scholarly literature
Insights and tips: Janet Salmons and Virginia Yonkers discuss Writing Beyond Career, plus posts and interviews with SAGE book and journal editors
More SAGE Methodspace AcWriMo resources
In this post Dr. Mazak discusses how to manage the writing process for a large project such as a dissertation, thesis, or book and offers resources to help new or experienced writers.
This post includes tips about writing qualitative proposals excerpted from Research Design by Creswell and Creswell.
Celebrate Academic Writing Month 2023 by getting organized! Find open-access resources to help you avoid being distracted by details and lost files.
Dr. Linda Bloomberg offers detailed suggestions for getting organized and starting a dissertation or thesis.
Sometimes taking a break from the keyboard to write by hand unleashes creativity.
Maria Lahman offers tips to help you hone your academic writing
Find tips that will help you hone your writing.
Get ready for #AcWriMo! Find a checklist that will help you overcome obstacles that keep you from making progress with academic writing.
This must-read article in The Scholarly Kitchen caught my attention: “Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?” See this thought-provoking interview with the author, Joseph Esposito.
Banned Books Week is a launchpad for an ongoing focus on factors that precede book bans or curricular restrictions, and implications for researchers and academic writers.
Marta Eichsteller offers tips for using and writing about biographical methods.
All the posts for Academic Writing Month 2022 are here on one page!
Learning while doing: collaborating on a book about collaboration.
Ethical decisions are present throughout the process of academic writing and publishing. This collection of open-access articles offers insights about some of the issues writers face.
Our context and identities influence how we think about our writing practice, our beliefs about time and boundaries, and so many other factors that have a real effect on us as academic writers.
Dr. Boyd was a panelist for the webinar, How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck. In this post she responds to numerous questions posed by attendees, such as: “How to deal with shame about being very behind on a writing project?”
Dr. Boyd was a panelist for the webinar, How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck. In this post she responds to a question posed by an attendee: “How do you find a writing group?
In addition to selling their well-known data analysis software, NVivo offers lots of free resources for qualitative and mixed methods researchers. They have a blog, a webinar series, and practical how-to videos. Find resources for academic writers whether or not you use their products.
In this podcast panelist Leslie Wang discusses “All About Writing Groups” and offers practical tips for organizing your own.
What do academics write when they are free from institutional constraints about what they can publish? See this post and conversation with Janet Salmons and Virginia Yonkers.
Listen to this conversation with Dr. Stu Shulman for discussion of implications of current developments for academics.
Dr. Boyd was a panelist for the webinar, How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck. In this post she responds to questions posed by attendees: “How do you get unstuck in writing when someone's negative, hypercritical, or just mean feedback has gotten you stuck?” and “How do you balance or sustain your writing with all the imposter syndrome thoughts coming at you?
Dr. Boyd was a panelist for the webinar, How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck. In this post she responds to questions posed by attendees: “How do you get unstuck in writing when someone's negative, hypercritical, or just mean feedback has gotten you stuck?” and “How do you balance or sustain your writing with all the imposter syndrome thoughts coming at you?
Since I am advocating for ways to stay engaged with writing, drifting may seem a strange interlude. Yet, I find drifting to be a vital companion state to writing. For me, usually drifting occurs when I have set aside all devices and am absorbed in some wholly different task, such as gardening, chauffeuring or waiting for children, or simply watching birds congregate at the feeder.
Michelle Boyd answers a question about taking small steps to make progress on a large writing project.