15 Minute Manager

Over the course of this past semester I worked with a cohort of full-time clinical nursing faculty to develop a daily writing habit. The Write Now! team contracted to write each day for 30 minutes. First thing every morning I sent them an email to describe what I was working on that day (I wanted [...]

NLN Scholarly Writing Retreat

The NLN Foundation has scheduled a Fall Writing Retreat to be held from November 3 – December 2, 2012 at the Mt. Royal Hotel and Conference Center in Baltimore, MD. Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN will be the facilitator. Leslie Block of the NLN will also be onsite in Baltimore, assisting participants with their [...]

Chronicle: Good Deeds, Most Punished

I’m getting caught up on reading back issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education (which I highly recommend for all faculty, as well as daily free updates from Inside Higher Ed), which recently included three columns by David Perlmutter on the theme “Good Deeds That Are Most Punished” (traps for junior, tenure-track faculty to avoid): [...]

Chronicle–Writers’ Bootcamp: Summer Writing Edition 2012

Billie Hara writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education reminds us that summer is the growing season for many academic writers. Hara coaches us in some basic principles for making the summer productive: Have a writing plan. Create a writing space. Limit distractions. Create emotional space. Collect writing tools. Make writing social. Just write. The [...]

IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research

Today Inside Higher Ed interviews researcher Laura Stark, author of a new book published by University of Chicago Press, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/08/author-provides-inside-look-irbs The interview includes practical advice for successful IRB application.

NYT: Perils of “Bite Size” Science

Marco Bertamini (psychologist at the University of Liverpool) and Marcus R. Munafo (psychologist at the University of Bristol), writing in the New York Times, question the wisdom of sliced-and-diced science article publishing, the tendency among some scholars and researchers to get out the door the smallest publishable unit (with the result of adding more publications [...]

Read and Follow the Instructions

Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s “Lingua Franca” blog, editor Carol Saller asks, “What’s So Hard About Reading a Cover Letter?”  The article highlights the importance of a scholar’s carefully reading and diligently following editors’ instructions, especially regarding copy editing changes.

The Professor Is In

Karen L. Kelsky is The Professor of TheProfessorIsIn, a Web site that augments Kelsky’s consulting practice as an advisor to advanced doctoral students and junior faculty. She came to my attention through her essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees,” in which she laments the lack of robust professional advising [...]

Inscrutable Reviewers

In my work as a writing coach and editor for nursing faculty and doctoral students, I sometimes work with authors in interpreting inscrutable anonymous peer reviewers’ comments. As most of us know, the peer review process is not perfect, and we sometimes find that one reviewer says, ACCEPT, another says, REJECT, while a third says [...]

Rockquemore: Supporting New & Mid-Career Faculty

In her recent columns on career mentoring Kerry Ann Rockquemore’s Mentoring 101 discusses supporting new faculty and mid-career post-tenure faculty. “Sink or Swim” decries as a waste of human potential an attitude that refuses to provide novice faculty with support negotiating all the professional expectations (for which graduate school does not prepare one). In today’s [...]