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How-to Articles for Academic Authors
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Writer's Guidelines


Abstracts

How to write an abstract
By Dave Harris


Dissertations

A Coach's Perspective on Finishing a Dissertation
April 4th, 2008 TAA Teleconference (link goes to recording)

Find Your Own Voice
By Dave Harris

When Writing, Focus on Your Strengths
By Dave Harris

When writing your dissertation, look at it from several perspectives
By Dave Harris


Editing Conference Proceedings

Editing a collective volume of papers from a conference


Feedback

Requesting and receiving feedback and how to use it effectively


Grant Writing

Grant-writing: A game you can win
By Kenneth Henson

Prolific grant writer shares his advice on landing grants


Marketing

Beyond Google Book Search: Emerging Strategies to Drive Online Discovery
Presentation from 2008 TAA Conference

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Peer Review

How to improve your role in the peer review process
By Gayle A. Brazeau


Publishing

How to maximize your chances of getting published
By Angela Thody

How to maximize your chances of getting published
By Nick J. Sciullo

20 ways to get published in an academic environment


Seminar Paper

How to turn that seminar paper into a publication
By Richard Hull


Scholarly Journal Articles

Use this checklist when submitting dissertation, journal article
By Dave Harris

How to read a journal acceptance letter

Advice on Getting Your Scholarly Articles Published

Publishing journal articles: Seasoned pros give tips


Time management

Time management tips


Writing

Top 10 grammar errors

Scholarly Writing: Strengthening Your Literature Review
October 17th
, 2008 TAA Teleconference (link goes to recording)

Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Author
March 6th, 2008 TAA Teleconference (link goes to recording)

Writing workshops provide support for academic authors
By Kim Seidel

Breaking Writer's Block: How to overcome the psychological inhibitions that keep you from writing
Presentation from 2008 TAA Conference

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Leveraging the Wisdom of Your Crowd: Five Things Every Author Can Do to Maximize a Book's Impact
Presentation from 2008 TAA Conference

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KISS (Keeping It Simple Isn't Stupid): Making the Complex Comprehensible
Presentation from 2008 TAA Conference

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Tip for writing at home when you're not alone

Punctuation, other stylistic rules: obstacle or opportunity?
By Dave Harris

Using scholarly models for academic writing
By Dave Harris

Try Writing Outside Your Discipline
By Nick Sciullo

When Writing, Focus on Your Strengths
By Dave Harris

12 Steps to becoming a more prolific scholar
By Tara Gray

How to write readable academic prose
By Andrew Johnson

Making difficult concepts easy to understand

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