Category: Faculty Writing
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Writers Write
If writing isn’t part of your daily habits, it might be tempting to discount the merits of regular writing. Who has the time to write every day? How can writers accomplish anything if they only have 30 or 60 minutes to write? Don’t you need big chunks of time to be most effective? Many effective…
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Establishing Accountability for Writing Goals
At the end of last week’s Faculty Writing Residency, several participants noted that they have trouble making time for writing. The Residency gave them “permission” to block time to write, and they felt empowered to tell people they couldn’t schedule other meetings for the Residency week because they’d already committed to the four-day writing retreat.…
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Jump-Starting Summer Writing with a Writing Residency
This week, Peter Felten, Michael Strickland, and I are facilitating the annual Faculty Writing Residency for Elon faculty working on scholarship related to teaching and learning. Once a year, we invite faculty to apply for the four-day writing residency, and we typically accept 9 to 15 participants (depending on their writing projects). Then, about a…