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 Education and upcoming webinars at Defend&Publish. She encourages academic parents to share tips for writing with children at [email protected]

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 tips for writing with children at [email protected]

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) among other strategies. 

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 design canvas and Research framing brainstorm. Additional template tools will be tweeted out this week. 

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 out “What’s Holding you Back?” by Natalie Lundsteen (Aug. 3, 2020)  from Inside Higher Education.

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. Two images of Christine’s Inkpad App are shown in Bonus Material. In addition, the book How Writing Faculty Write (2018) is referenced. See specific interviews with Chris Anson and Danielle DeVoss for more details on how to get writing done while leaving writing up on screen.

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) Scholarcy (www.scholarcy.com