Category: Faculty Writing

  • An Action Plan for Writing

    Even short, prioritized inventories of writing projects can become overwhelming if you don’t have an action plan for completing the projects. Enter Kanban, an agile strategy for visualizing your work and limiting the tasks in progress to a manageable work load… I first learned about agile strategies from Rebecca Pope-Ruark (see, for example, her Center…

  • Taking an Inventory

    New years, whether calendar or academic, are a good time to take stock of writing projects. Brainstorm What’s on your writing to-do list? List every project that comes to mind. What’s in-progress, what’s on the horizon that you’ve already committed to, and what’s on your dream list (i.e., “I wish I had time for this project…”)?…

  • New Year, New Goal

    Each January (and truth be told, each August, given the ebbs and flows of the academic calendar), I reassess my professional projects and writing goals. Looking at Writing Faculty, it’s obvious that this site didn’t get any of my attention over the past year. With settling into a new academic position, chairing two conferences, and…