Daily Writing: How Prolific Scholars Do It
Daily Writing: How Prolific Scholars Do It I am most productive as a writer on days when I wake up before the crack of dawn and get an hour of writing in before everyone in the house is awake and, most important, before checking email or social media. I know several highly productive academics – some of the chairs, deans, and provosts – who do the same thing. For people with administrative duties, that is often the only time they have to write. You don’t have to wake up at 5 a.m. to be a prolific scholar. You do have to write, however. And nearly all of the productive academics I have met are daily writers. Daily writing is one of the most essential strategies I can recommend to boost your productivity. Theresa MacPhail calls daily writing a “no-fail secret to write a dissertation.” That advice is just as crucial for new (and older) faculty. It’s also backed up by research. A study by Robert Boice reported in his book, Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Product...
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