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Weekly Wisdom #93 by Paul Gray and David E.Drew
DO SERVE AS A REVIEWER for journals, particularly top journals. Treat this job seriously. You will see much junk being submitted and appreciate why some journals reject 80% or more of their...
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Weekly Wisdom #94 by Paul Gray and Simon E. Drew
PAY ATTENTION TO THE BOOK PUBLISHERS’ REPRESENTATIVES WHO COME INTO YOUR OFFICE. They are a valuable source of information. These reps have two missions: (a) to flog the books their company issues...
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Weekly Wisdom #95 by Paul Gray and Simon E. Drew
SELECTING A PUBLISHER INVOLVES TRADE-OFFS. With a large publisher that issues many books in your field in a year you gain the advantage of mass marketing and advertising. Large publishers employ reps...
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Weekly Wisdom #96 by Paul Gray and Simon E. Drew
GET TO KNOW THE MAJOR EDITORS of the book publishers in your field. The best place to meet them is at the book exhibits associated with your annual professional conference. You will find that some of...
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Weekly Wisdom #97 by Paul Gray and Simon E. Drew
LEARN TIME MANAGEMENT. Determine your work priorities and try as best you can to match your time commitments to those priorities. The model of an academic having large blocks of time at work to think...
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Weekly Wisdom #98 by Paul Gray and Simon E. Drew
COMPLETION TIME. No matter how long you think it will take to write a paper based on your research, see the paper you just submitted in print, complete a research project, prepare a new course,or...
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Weekly Wisdom #99 by Paul Gray and Simon E. Drew
SPECIALIZE. GET KNOWN FOR SOMETHING. It helps visibility. Sadly, brilliant, restless people who work on several topics simultaneously usually do not achieve as much visibility as those who plod along...
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Weekly Wisdom #100 by Paul Gray and Simon E. Drew
GRAY’S THEOREM OF N + 2. The number of papers required for tenure is N + 2, where N is the number you published. (Corollary: Gray’s Theorem is independent of N.)
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Techniques for Different Writing Stages by Charlotte Frost
By scott_williams via Flickr This is a guide by Charlotte Frost to the many different stages of producing a piece of academic writing. Often we lump all these stages together and get overwhelmed. Here...
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The 25 Minute Text by Charlotte Frost
By holyponiesbatman via Flickr This is a public worksheet/workshop for writing a draft of academic text in just 25 minutes. You’re invited to complete each task in the allotted time in your own...
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