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Writing and publishing are significant parts of our professional lives in an academic environment. We are working on articles, grant proposals, teaching philosophies, reviews, editorials, monographs, stories and novels. Often, writing is a very isolated endeavor and we don’t have opportunities to talk about the process, our struggles, or how to get feedback from readers within and outside our own departments. The Center for Faculty Excellence at TWU has started this new initiative to foster communities of writers that will enhance productivity, collegiality, and the exchange of ideas across the disciplines and organizational boundaries.
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What academics need from a writing group is not criticism but, rather, encouragement, benevolent peer pressure, and accountability. We need advice on overcoming the obstacles that keep us from writing in the first place. We need help getting our writing done — not just planned and agonized over. We need to learn how to manage our time and how to carve out 'writing niches'. Productivity techniques often work best when there is someone giving us little reminders. Committing to an academic writing group that focuses on setting regular writing goals helps to hold yourself accountable.
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