2010 TAA Conference on Text and Academic Authoring

Ramada Mall of America Minneapolis, Minnesota

June 24-26, 2010

Academic Session:

Tara Gray

Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar

Day/Time: Saturday, 9 - 10:00 a.m.

Presenter: Tara Gray, author of Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar, and presenter of the TAA-sponsored "Publish & Flourish" workshop

The myth persists that prolific scholars are born not made, but research suggests otherwise. Much is known about how to become prolific, and participants of this session will learn about several of them, including:

• Write daily for 15-30 minutes
• Post your thesis on the wall and write to it
• Write from the first day of your research project
• Organize around key sentences
• Use key sentences as an after-the fact outline
• Solicit the right feedback from the right colleagues
• Make effective use of feedback

About the Presenter:

Tara Gray serves as associate professor of criminal justice and as the first director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University (NMSU). She has published three books, including her most recent, Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at NMSU and nationally with seven awards for teaching or service. Gray has presented faculty development workshops to 5,000 participants in more than twenty of the United States, and in Mexico, Guatemala, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia. As a workshop presenter, Dr. Gray is "spirited, informative and entertaining—she's anything but gray!"