高效写作：突破你的心理障碍

• 旧学新知

  2019-01-05
  Good scholarship is open ended --- an ongoing conversation. Your goal is to become part of the conversation in your corner of the field. So rather than fearing that you are missing something as you try to review "all" of the literature, gather enough to let others help you find additional pertinent information, and move ahead with your project. (p. 73)Give up the dream of complete expertise and replace it with a commitment to becoming conversant with what you need to know to write this particular piece right now. Incorporate the truly relevant sources into a draft literature review, and get on with your writing. (p. 74)
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-05
  The antidote to chronic comparision is to focus on giving yourself what you need in order to do your best scholarly work. (p. 65)Remember, no one but you can do your project. Forget about "colleague X", and focus instead on what you can do for your project. Make it good. That is enough. (p. 66)
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-05
  The key to challenging the cleared-deck myth is to remember that our scholarly work is not just one more unwelcome obligation. It is a voluntary commitment --- what we need to do to be happy and sucessful in our chosen field. Scholarly writing should be an activity we respect and believe in. It is not just "one more thing". It is the main thing in our professional lives. It can be a pleasant, rewarding thing --- once we learn how to give ourselves frequent low-stress, high-reward encounters in a supportive environment with a project we care about. (p. 59)
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-04
  We can remember that writing is about the work, not us. We are always apprentices, learning how to do better and better work. We are impostors only if we pretend otherwise.
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-04
  Remember that academic writing is about making a contribution, not about proving your worth.The more we image that writing is all about us --- our skills and insights --- the less competent and capable we will feel. But if we focus instead on just doing the project, and on mastering the skills we need to do it well, the more write-sized the project becomes.
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-04
  In stead of staying trapped by the magnum opus myth, we can learn to think of ourselves as making our best contribution to an ongoing conversation that includes insights from the past and will (we hope) incorporate at least some of our own ideas long after we are gone. We choose to build on what has gone before, and work toward helping those that come after us, by doing our best work right now. (p. 49)Our writing project is a moment, not a monument. It can make our corner of the discipline more accurate, insightful, or interesting. Daily contact with our writing project is evidence of our honorable intention to enhance (not transform) the scholarly conversation. (p. 51)
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-04
  The most common and damaging writing myth in academic life is that we have to create an influential masterpiece --- a magnum opus. It keeps us yearning to generate an imposibly magnificent work while feeling shame for not actually doing so.
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-03
  It requires constant effort for me to remember this, because it can feel so good to get things "off my desk".
• 旧学新知

  2019-01-03
  This work-until-you-drop pattern keeps us from recognizing that what our academic responsibilities require of us actually varies. It keep us from making and honoring our own choices. We can --- we must --- recognize and respect our fluctuating energies. We need to learn how to match energy to task --- put A energy into A tasks, B energy into B tasks, and C energy into C tasks.