Developing a Writing Practice

This sub-page hosts my blog posts associated with skills, strategies, methods and techniques we can use to develop a writing practice.

6 Tips to Re-Start Your Writing Practice

Given the multiple commitments we usually have as academics, writing often ends up at the bottom of the To-Do List. In this blog post I offer a few tips on how to re-start your writing practice. I suggest that you start slowly and build up to the point where you have again a writing practice.

Developing a Sustainable Writing Practice.

Academia is, in my view, a long-term career rather than a sprint. Therefore, it is important to develop a sustainable writing practice. This post reflects on how I’ve tried to build a sustainable writing practice, not by chasing productivity for its own sake, but by creating systems and habits that allow me to write consistently over time. I share some of the strategies that have helped me write through busy semesters and periods where I have felt like I am about to burn out.

On the Importance of the “Reading, Note-Taking, Synthesizing and Writing” Sequence in Developing an Academic Research and Writing practice.

In this blog post I explain my experience teaching how to read, take notes, systematize these notes and develop a writing rpactice. This post should be useful for faculty AND students (for faculty, it explains how I teach this process, and for students, it showcases how you can learn it and develop a reading, note-taking, systematizing and writing practice all on your own).

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