Academic writing
I’ve found the below works useful in my writing.
Professors as Writers [↗] by Robert Boice
-- time management -- writing as a professional task -- psychology of writing --
An account of the problems that academics face in writing and provides strategies for overcoming these. Chief amongst these is the idea that most people struggle with writing, but conssitent habits and consistent work is the most useful for developing these. I take this to mean that we should write academically every day.
This can be ‘borrowed’ in full at the Web Archive link above.
How to Write an Article in 12 Weeks [↗] by Wendy Belcher
-- articles -- journals -- formats -- reviews --
A useful workbook for guiding a writer through the process of publishing a journal article. The idea is that by spending an hour a day on specific tasks, you’ll produce an article soon enough. It doesn’t help you to have an idea and you do need to have some sort of draft that you’re working on to take advantage of the materials. If you’re familiar with the writing process, then the most useful aspect of the book is that it provides simple solutions to common problems - abstracts, responding to feedback, framing, etc.
There is a first edition, which has circulated widely, and a second edition released more recently.
How to Write a Thesis [↗] by Umberto Eco
-- PhD theses -- form -- research questions -- structure --
A guide on writing PhDs that I think is actually quite useful in terms of giving a clear formal structure for the doctoral thesis. One of the real strengths about this work is that it aligns the work of writing to the work of research, and thus helps those that absolutely need to write to align themselves in productive directions.