100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix Them

For this bonus track in my continued my conversation with Professor Cynthia Core, she shares how she's supporting her fellow faculty writers at George Washington University.

 

Throughout the academic year, it’s easy look at the summer as the time when major writing will get done, when long simmering projects will be brought to completion, when things will quiet down, and we’ll finally meet deadlines we’ve put off. The problem is that summer almost never seems as long as we expect it to be and so by the end of the season, we’re left scrambling for and often falling short of the writing goals we set. In the discussion, I'm joined by Professor Cynthia Core from George Washington University.

We spend so much time reading published writing that we forget that the finished product generally comes at the end of a necessarily messy process. Learning to expect, accept, and embrace imperfect writing as a meaningful part of the process can have a surprisingly positive effect your productivity.

Books about writing can seem so assuring. But reading too many can over-inform and confuse your writing process. If you’ve accumulated many books that seemed like they’d help you but didn’t, this episode is for you.

Welcome to 100 Mistakes Academics Make...and How to Fix Them, a new podcast for academics and other writers who need to get work done.