num_pages: 145
description: All academics need to write but many struggle to finish their dissertations articles books or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. How can we write it all while still having a life? In this second edition of his popular guidebook Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively. After addressing some common excuses and bad habits he provides practical strategies to motivate students professors researchers and other academics to become better and more prolific writers. Silvia draws from his own experience in psychology to explain how to write submit and revise academic work from journal articles to books all without sacrificing evenings weekends and vacations. The tips and strategies in this second edition have been updated to apply to academic writing in most disciplines. Also new to this edition is a chapter on writing grant and fellowship proposals.
language: English
title: How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (2018 New Edition)
publisher: APA LifeTools