Stylus Publishing (VA) The Productive Graduate Student Writer: How to Manage Your Time, Process, and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation and Get Published

This book is for graduate students, and others, who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to:increase their motivation, focus, and persistence to move a project to completionovercome procrastination and perfectionistic tendenciesreduce (or write in spite of) their anxiety and fear of writingmanage their time, work, energy (and advisor) for greater productivityThe process or craft of sustained writing is not a matter that’s taught to undergraduate or graduate students as part of their studies, leaving most at sea about how to start a practice that is central to a career in academe and vital in many other professional occupations.This book grew out of conversations Jan Allen has held with her graduate students for over 30 years and reflects the fruit of the writing workshops and boot camps she has conducted at three universities, her own and numerous colleagues’ experiences with writing and advising, as well as the feedback she receives from her popular Productive Writer listserv.While Jan Allen recognizes that writing is not an innate talent for most of us, she demonstrates that it is a process based on skills, which we can identify, learn, practice and refine. She focuses both on the process and habits of writing as well as on helping you uncover what kind of writer are you, and reflect on your challenges and successes. With a light touch and an engaging sense of humor, she proposes strategies to overcome procrastination and distractions, and build a writing practice to enable you to become a more productive and prolific writer.Jan Allen proposes that you read one of her succinct chapters – each devoted to a specific strategy or writing challenge – each day, or once a week. When you find one that increases your concentration, motivation or endurance, make it a habit. Try it for two weeks, charting the resulting increased productivity. It will become part of your repertoire of writing and productivity tools to which you can progressively add. Review TheProductive Graduate Student Writer: How to Manage Your Time, Process, andEnergy to Write Your Research Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation and GetPublished provides students with all-in-one guide to managing gradschool's demands. From working on and finishing a project both without andunder deadlines to defining essential tasks, conducting research, andtranslating it to a dissertation, this addresses the basics student writersneed to know to get projects completed in a more efficient manner. Unlike moregeneral college how-to guides or creative writer's guides, The ProductiveGraduate Student Writer's focus on the routines, demands, and processes of gradschool makes for a specialized presentation that provides exact details on theprocess of research and writing for grad students.-- "Midwest Book Review""Unfortunately, few graduate students start their programs withwell-established habits of writing. Instead, they figure it out on their own;often relying on strategies that sufficed during their undergraduate years.Binge writing. Procrastinating. Mired in perfectionist gridlock. Those strategies, however, don't work for doctoral writing. Whatto do? Shed the old habits and develop new ones. Easier said than done, ofcourse. Fortunately, there is help. This book will set you on the right course.Jan Allen has seen it all. For decades she has brought her empatheticwisdom to help graduate student writers find their voices and their writingrhythms. This book is a pithy distillation of her wisdom. She serves it up inbite-sized chunks. Use it as an energy burst to start your daily writing timeand set your new habits into place."--Chris M. Golde, Assistant Director of Career Communities for PhDs & Postdocs "Stanford University"Dr. Allen's book is divided into two sections: tips onhow to be a productive writer and tips on writing specific documents, such asgrant proposals, a graduate thesis, a dissertation, and a jou