In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for resetting and cleaning up teaching file folders stored on a computer.

LINKS: 

• “How to Keep Course Files Organized”
• “Organizing Your Teaching Materials”

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for cleaning up and reorganizing an office after a Covid absence in order to increase productivity for a return to on campus teaching in the fall.

LINKS:

• “Designing the Future Faculty Office”
• “Seven Tips for Creating a Home Workspace”

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for addressing motivational writing blocks, i.e. situations where academic writers avoid writing or just don’t want to write.

LINKS:

• Write No Matter What!
• How to Avoid Overprepping for Classes (to make more time for writing)
• Inkpad

In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for addressing paralysis writing blocks, i.e. situations where academic writers find themselves unable to write.

Links:

• Overcoming Your Writing Paralysis Writing Paralysis
• D&P Podcast Episode 5: Make Writing an Event
• Inkpad

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
• Air, Light, Time, and Space (she also has resources, including a link to this book)

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.

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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 https://www.defendandpublish.com/podcasts/

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.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313&_nkw=rachel+hollis+start+today+planner&_sacat=0).

She also references websites that review goal setting planners:

https://greatist.com/discover/best-2021-planners-for-productivity#how-we-chose

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-planners-according-to-productivity-experts.html

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).