Silvia 1976 American Psychological Association
| Silvia PJ (1976) How to write a lot. A practical guide to productive academic writing. American Psychological Association Washington DC:149 pp. |
Silvia PJ (1976) American Psychological Association
Abstract: All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule.
In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul Silvia explains that writing productively does not require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks and become prolific without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives detailed advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles, how to improve writing quality, and how to write and publish academic work.
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Quotations
- If you think that writing time is lurking somewhere, hidden deep within your weekly schedule, you will never write a lot. If you think that you won’t be able to write until a big block of time arrives, such as spring break or the summer months, then you’ll never write a lot. Finding time is a destructive way if thinking about writing. Never say this again.
- Instead of finding time to write, allot time to write.
- To begin, allot a mere 4 hours per week. After you see the astronomical increase in your writing output, you can always add more hours.
- Our academic journals radiate bad writing .. But if you talk with the authors of these disastrously written articles, you’ll find that they’re enthusiastic about their work.
- .. don’t mindlessly write the words you see in professional journals.
- ‘Few people realize how badly they write.’
