Academic Writing

Resources and strategies for academic writing success.

Foundation

Key elements to cultivate for successful academic writing:

  • Places (your workspace)
  • Routines (like the daily writing routine)
  • Personal Care (the foundation)
  • Purpose (why do it)
  • People (support networks)
Read more about these principles in 'Thriving in the Gig Economy'

Infrastructure

Writing Tools

Scrivener
Zotero

Note-Taking

Obsidian
Evernote
Bear
OneNote

Productivity

f.lux
Forest App
Brain.fm

Getting Writing Done

Using the Pomodoro Technique for Academic Tasks
Guide to Productivity Techniques
How to Be Indistractable (Nir Eyal)

Strategy

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day (Joan Bolker)
Columbia University's Guide to The Dissertation
7 Writing Habits for First Time Book Authors
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (Wendy Belcher)
Handbook for Academic Authors (Beth Luey)

Craft

The Elements of Academic Style (Eric Hayot)
Every Day I Write the Book (Amitava Kumar)
The Writer's Diet (Helen Sword)
Developmental Editing (Scott Norton)
How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page

Public Writing

How to Cope With a Fear of Public Writing (Irina Dumitrescu)
RT = Endorsement (Kinohi Nishikawa)
Why Write for the Public (Bécquer Seguín)

From Dissertation to Book

From Dissertation to Book (Leonard Cassuto)
Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book
The 7 Stages of Publishing Your First Academic Book
Creating Your Author Platform
How to Turn Your Dissertation into a Book (Eric Weiskott)