For the month of December only, this on-demand webinar, presented by Christine Tulley, author of How Writing Faculty Write, will be available free to readers of The Scholarly Kitchen.
Because of the time it takes to get an article or a book published, productive academics typically work on more than one writing project at a time. The challenge many faculty face is how to keep track of all of the pieces of each writing project and make sure each is completed to a final submission stage. In this 30-minute webinar (short but packed with powerful advice to provide you with more time for writing!), Christine Tulley, author of How Writing Faculty Write and career advice columnist for Inside Higher Education, shares how to develop and use a multiple writing project tracking system that logs all stages of all of the projects and schedules writing time for each to aid in multiple writing project management.
Some of the resources mentioned during the webinar:
- “Developing a master writing plan” (about her tracking chart)
- How Writing Faculty Write (how to plan writing projects and work in tiny time fragments)
- “Using Trello in Academia”
- Guide to Making Time to Write
- Defend & Publish private coaching session to set up your system (email her for questions)
- The Academic Phrasebank
- Four-book series by John Swales and Christine Feak called English in Today’s Research World
- Podcast: Rhetoricity
Read Christine’s The Scholarly Kitchen Guest Post, Emerging Trends in the Academic Publishing Lifecycle (March 27, 2019)
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Essential Books for Authors
Guide to Making Time to Write: 100+ Time & Productivity Management Tips for Textbook and Academic Authors
You know you should be writing at least 15 minutes a day. But with all the demands on your time, how can you find 15 minutes or more to spare? And when you do find the time to write, it’s often hard to break free of the distractions and build momentum in the time that you have. We get it. Making time to write–and doing it productively–can be challenging.
So, to help you succeed, we’ve collected 100+ successful tips and strategies–and a lot of inspiration–from authors who have made the time and made it work. In this Guide to Making Time to Write, you will find just what you need to boost your productivity, adjust your routine, and focus on your writing efforts once and for all. Isn’t it time for you to make the time to write?
Guide to Rights Clearance & Permissions in Scholarly, Educational, and Trade Publishing
Learn what you need to know to avoid and manage copyright infringement claims that arise from the publication of your book, article, or media project. In this book, intellectual property attorney Stephen E. Gillen covers the unique rights clearance and permission issues related to writing scholarly works. You’ll also get practical pointers and guidelines, and more than a dozen templates you can use to request permissions and secure releases. Put 40 years of rights clearance and permissions experience on your bookshelf.
Writing and Developing Your College Textbook: A Comprehensive Guide
This updated and expanded third edition by Mary Ellen Lepionka, Sean W. Wakely, and Stephen E. Gillen, will empower you to undertake textbook development by guiding you through the nuts and bolts of the development process, and providing essential background information on the changing higher education publishing industry, as well as how to choose a publisher, write a textbook proposal, negotiate a publishing contract, and establish good author-publisher relations.
Guide to Textbook Publishing Contracts
In this step-by-step guide by Stephen Gillen, a Partner at Wood Herron & Evans, you will learn the key provisions of a typical textbook contract and how to determine what’s important to you so that you can enter into the contract negotiation process better informed. Get the “typical”, “better” and “better still” options you can consider when making decisions about what to negotiate.