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How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
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Product Description
All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul Silvia explains that writing productively does not require innate skills or special 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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #49155 in Books
- Published on: 2007-01-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 149 pages
Customer Reviews
Really constructive book 
Really helpful for academics who need or want to change their writing mindset, writing habits, and writing productivity.
Though written by and primarily for academic and broadly experimental psychologists, this is a very helpful book for any academic writer (I am a social scientist working mainly in qualitative methods).
Silvia usefully discusses writing schedules, blocks to writing, and various tools to help get into and maintain good writing habits.
He has a personable, clear and nicely humorous style. I have found some books of this type rather admonishing, but I did not find that here.
I have already recommended this book to both postgrads and to faculty colleagues.
A good read, but not a 'must-have'
This is a good book if you want to kick start your writing and turn it into a habit. I would classify it as a movitational book for those who loathe writing or are too lazy to write. That said, there are some practical tips and good references if you want to read further. Worth buying if your just starting writing, or have lost your writing mojo.
