Are you struggling to make writing a habit? Do you keep pushing it off until tomorrow? Too many times when…
5 Cool resources I learned about at #2015TAA
This year’s TAA conference sessions were jam-packed with great tips, strategies and take-aways. Here are just 5 of the cool resources I learned about at #2015TAA:
6 Useful software tools for academic writers
If you’re like most academics, you have many demands on your time. Wouldn’t it be nice if some of those…
How do you track your ongoing projects and manuscripts?
“I use both a very low tech and a higher tech method. In my study I have a magnetic white…
Maintain an open ‘ancillary idea file’ for your textbook
As an author of several textbooks and ancillaries over a couple of decades, Kevin Patton, professor of Life Science at…
Manage your writing goals with ‘Pyramid of Power’
To help her clients focus on important tasks instead of wandering from task to task, Susan Robison, a psychologist and faculty development consultant with Professor DeStressor, created the “Pyramid of Power” — a pyramid-shaped goal-setting model.
“I chose the pyramid for the design of my model because that is the most stable structure you can construct,” she said. “It has a wide base and a narrow top, with your goals at the top. The model can work top down and bottom up.”
Many people operate with their goals as a huge top, with a very narrow bottom or no bottom at all, says Robison. “The goals are floating around up in the air and they aren’t anchored to anything,” she said. “The Pyramid of Power reverses that, anchoring your goals.”
The Pyramid of Power has four elements. They are, from the bottom up, said Robison: