Most of us don’t start drafting with the Core Argument clear in our minds. It emerges during the writing process.

Finding organizational systems that work for you can reduce stress and open the door to more fun.

If planning and organizing aren’t getting you to your goals, it may be time to back up and tackle motivation.

Let’s get your research funded. Let’s make this world a better place.

Some prompts to help you uncover the strategies that help you work at your best—great for neurodivergent and neurotypical folks alike.

I love this new book about how good teaching principles can guide public writing.

If we are going to do this work of writing anyway, let’s make it as pleasurable as possible.

If you are feeling disconnected from your “why,” here are some questions to journal about.

Black Feminist Writing is an academic writing guide that centers wellness in the writing process.

A classic TED talk to support you in your work.

Psychological flexibility is the capacity to recognize our thoughts without getting hooked into them.

Some guidelines on using generative AI as a graduate student or scholar…if you choose to do so.

Kate Vacek and Letitia Henville offer tips for academics who've just landed their first tenure-track job about how to advance and succeed.

I think people get confused between gap and problem because gaps are problematic—there’s something we don’t know that we want to know.

If you can sort buttons, you can sort your reference library.

As we experiment with AI tools for scholarly writing, the academic community must consider the needs of its emerging members.

Feeling lost in a crowd of articles and books, unsure about how to take effective notes? If that's you, meet the Critical Annotated Bibliography (CAB) – your game-changer. It not only hones your reading focus but also crafts a powerful collection of writing ready to go into your drafts.

In this episode Kate shares how her doctoral writing group was formed and maintained and reflects on her experience of what worked and what was not so useful. She also offers some alternative models for doctoral writing groups and advice for those who would like to try this way of working.

When cooking or baking, you have lots of choices but also some limits; when designing a study, your choices also need to fit with each other and accepted practice.

“Writing is so amazingly resistant to efficiency measures.”

— Rachael Cayley