If there’s one thing there’s never enough of in academia, it’s time. The elasticity of academic tasks can mean that you are constantly eating into your quiet thinking time, the time you reserve for working on your scholarly research. Here are some strategies to protecting your time from student grade appeals.

Is bad writing bad science? Bad science here refers to imprecision. Based on that idea, we can say that imprecise scientific writing—which is another way of saying “bad writing”—definitely creates bad science.

The main reason faculty were not signing up for my workshop was because of confirmation bias: “The fact that I am publishing confirms that I am a good writer, which means writing workshops are not for me.” But ask yourself this: Are you publishing in top-tier journals? Have you tried, but just can’t seem to make it? And have you considered that the problem may not simply be your research, but your writing?

Writing is a solitary act, but it doesn’t have to be done in solitude and isolation. A Zoom writing community (a.k.a. writing circle, writing group) is a space for writers to come together and write synchronously; it provides companionship and support, intellectual and emotional.