How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
How to Write a Lot: A Matter-of-fact Guide to Productive Academic Writing Books
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All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to end their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be trying to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this matter-of-fact, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul J. Silvia clarifies that writing productively does not require innate skills or unique traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks and become prolific without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives detailed advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles; how to improve writing quality; and how to write and publish academic work.
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When I sit down to write, I get the jumblies in my tummy and it hurts like a force of nature took the wind aptly out of you. I can’t read that well, and I only ongoing English class two years ago, but I am going to write the next grate american novel (I hope!). Thank you Dr. for you tips that sometimes strangers will read to me if they’re not in a rush and I’m well dressed.
Rating: 5 / 5
I suppose it’s not the author’s fault that there needs to be a book on how to write a lot, but it’s a disappointing plotting.
I would prefer a book on how to *reckon* like a novelist, not a book on how to *write* like a (prolific) novelist. Writing like a novelist comes more naturally when you can reckon like a novelist.
Excessively long papers are generally long either because there’s a senseless word count requirement or because the author is trying to argue a top ad nauseam.
Of course, driving home a top ad nauseam is sometimes an effective way of encouraging excellent habits, which I suppose is why this book spends a excellent part of 150 pages reiterating basic work ethic principles that you’ve probably heard about sometime in your 15+ years in school.
But academic writing really shouldn’t be about habits or rhetoric. Productivity is one thing; mental diarrhea is another. Forcing text out of your fingers on a austere schedule regardless of whether or not you have anything worth sharing might help you work your way through university, but you’d be sacrificing the integrity of your field of study in the administer.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is directed to those of us who need reminding that writing is hard work. The premise of scheduling is supported by many other authors. But, I urge this one to my students just for simple reading and its encouraging tone.
Rating: 3 / 5
the author tells that we should make a schedule of writing as we have time for teaching, eating, swimming and so on–to make it routine.
but don’t you need something more when you buy a book?
Rating: 3 / 5
Simple, prove the helpful skill to “how to write A LOT”, but not for “how to write” .
Rating: 4 / 5