Virtual Workshops by Christine Tulley
Christine Tulley is Professor of English and Founder of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Findlay. As the campus Academic Development Coordinator, she runs faculty writing groups and offers tenure and promotion application support including effective practices for writing teaching philosophies and persuasive reflective statements. She is the author of Productivity, Professionalism, and Parenting in Academia (2025), Faculty Writing Research (2025), and How Writing Faculty Write (2018) and contributes regularly to Inside Higher Ed on faculty productivity issues.
You can select from the following virtual workshops:
Her two-hour virtual workshops delivered via Zoom include up to 150 TAA memberships that provide your faculty with access to TAA's extensive writing and publishing resources. These memberships are available to faculty whether or not they participate in the virtual event.
TAA manages event registration, providing you with a registration link to share with your faculty, and workshop participation information in their confirmation emails. E-mail templates are provided to host institutions to promote the event. Institutions must have an expectation of at least 15 participants per workshop or retreat.
Institution Fee: $1,000
To schedule a workshop, please contact [email protected]
Choose from seven workshops:
Using AI in Scholarly Writing: An Introduction for Academic Authors
Artificial intelligence tools are rapidly transforming academic writing practices, yet many scholars remain uncertain about how to use these tools ethically and effectively in their research and publication workflows. While AI can potentially enhance productivity and improve writing quality, concerns about academic integrity, originality, and proper citation practices create hesitation among faculty and graduate students. Many academics struggle to understand when AI assistance crosses the line from helpful support to academic misconduct, or how to protect sensitive research data while using these platforms.
In this interactive workshop, participants will explore evidence-based best practices for integrating AI tools into scholarly writing processes. The session establishes clear ethical boundaries—what AI should never be used for (such as writing articles and chapters from scratch)—along with essential data security guidelines. Participants will learn practical prompts for using AI to improve existing writing (clarifying arguments, adding examples, refining vague language) and to support idea generation (exploring conceptual connections, refining research questions, testing logical consistency). Throughout the workshop, emphasis is placed on adapting rather than adopting AI suggestions, critically evaluating outputs, and using AI as a tool. Using real examples from various disciplines, participants will leave with a toolkit of specific prompts they can immediately apply to their own writing projects, along with clear guidelines for making AI a responsible and effective partner in scholarly writing.
Making time to write can be a struggle for faculty with heavy teaching loads. Writing for publication is often pushed off as faculty work to stay on top of student grading and responding to student emails. Yet many faculty publish regularly because they have developed a writing system that enables them to find time and use it productively.
In this interactive workshop, participants will be invited to identify specific teaching tasks that infringe on writing time. Next, participants will be taught to use a combination of “pattern teaching” and grading “templates” that efficiently shorten these tasks without sacrificing effectiveness in order to preserve more time for writing for publication. In addition, we will review academic writing moves that can level up scholarly writing and increase chances of publication. Using this combination of strategies, participants will create and leave with a weekly framework of a writing/teaching system that safeguards time for scholarly productivity and prioritizes scholarly writing.
Collaborating with co-authors on articles, grants, and presentations often seems like a timesaving strategy for busy academics. Yet collaborative relationships often fail because writing partners find their styles and schedules don’t mesh, collaborators disappear or roadblock projects, and managing the back and forth of a collaborative workflow proves to be time consuming.
In this interactive workshop, participants will be invited to identify specific challenges that affect productive writing collaborations. Next, participants will be taught specific techniques to begin or revise collaborative work with a focus on five key areas: initiating a collaborative project (grant, conference presentation, article, textbook, etc.), dividing up collaborative work, deciding on the collaborative writing process, managing deadlines, and problem solving for collaborative work challenges. Free software tools and templates will be used with participants to assist in these areas. Using this combination of strategies, participants will leave with a “collaboration plan” for a future or current project.
Developing a “media identity” is increasingly important for academics as universities seek to promote academic research as publicly relevant. In addition, as scholarly journals proliferate it is increasingly difficult to find readers for scholarship. Developing a cohesive “academic” media presence can address both issues.
In this interactive workshop, participants will identify types of academic media they already have and use, and compare promotions of academic work across platforms such as Twitter, Google Scholar, YouTube and more. Next, participants will be taught specific techniques to promote academic research (and if desired, teaching) that can be used across various platforms and identify 2-3 main platforms to use to promote scholarship along with times during the semester to keep these platforms updated. The workshop will showcase free software tools and templates will be used with participants to assist in these areas. Using this combination of strategies, participants will leave with an “academic media plan” to establish, maintain, and enhance an academic media presence.
Supporting Scholarship through Effective Citation
Part of composing academic scholarship includes situating research within scholarly literature. Yet citing the work of others involves practices such as knowing how to avoid plagiarism, citing research that is appropriate and focused to the writing project, and navigating assistance from emerging technologies such as generative AI. In this workshop, participants will learn a series of strategies for engaging in contemporary citation practices and will have the opportunity to practice these using real life examples.
Supporting Faculty on Sabbatical: Strategies for Success and Support
Faculty sabbaticals represent critical opportunities for scholarly renewal, yet many faculty struggle to complete writing projects and manage their time effectively during these periods, while institutions often lack dedicated resources to ensure productive outcomes. This workshop serves both faculty preparing for or currently on sabbatical and those who support them, providing evidence-based approaches for maximizing sabbatical productivity. You'll explore unique challenges from project planning and time management to maintaining momentum and achieving meaningful scholarly outcomes.
Whether you're a faculty member planning your sabbatical or a faculty developer/administrator supporting sabbatical faculty, you'll gain practical tools including project planning templates, accountability systems, and productivity strategies. Faculty participants will learn to develop realistic timelines, establish productive routines, and navigate the transition back to regular duties. Faculty developers and administrators will discover how to create pre-sabbatical workshops, implement check-in systems, and facilitate successful re-entry programs, plus explore successful models for sabbatical cohorts and peer support systems.
Writing and Publishing Post-Tenure: Navigating the Second Act of Your Academic Career
Post-tenure faculty often face unique writing and publishing challenges that differ dramatically from their pre-tenure experience, including shifting motivation, evolving research interests, and the pressure to establish a new scholarly identity beyond promotion requirements. Many faculty struggle to maintain writing momentum after tenure, experiencing decreased productivity, unclear publication goals, or difficulty adapting to changing academic landscapes. This workshop addresses the specific obstacles post-tenure faculty encounter while providing practical strategies for rekindling scholarly passion and establishing sustainable writing practices for the next phase of their careers.
Whether you're a recently tenured faculty member seeking direction or a seasoned scholar looking to revitalize your research agenda, you'll gain concrete tools for post-tenure success. You'll learn to identify and overcome common post-tenure writing blocks, develop new publication strategies aligned with your evolving goals, and create accountability systems that sustain long-term productivity. Faculty developers and administrators will discover how to design programming that supports post-tenure faculty transitions, including writing retreats, manuscript development workshops, and mentorship programs that help faculty navigate this critical career phase with renewed purpose and productivity.
From Scattered Goals to Finished Drafts: Using Summer Writing Time to Complete Projects
Many scholars are surprised to discover that more time does not automatically mean more writing. Instead, unclaimed hours fill themselves with errands, email, domestic logistics, conference prep, and the low-grade anxiety of knowing you should be writing without quite being able to start. Ambitious manuscript goals and long-deferred revision projects end up no closer to completion when the break is over. Without a concrete, calendar-grounded plan tailored to how your independent work time actually unfolds, good intentions are rarely enough.
This workshop walks you through a practical process for taking stock of your real available time — accounting for travel, personal commitments, and the energy patterns that shift dramatically outside a structured semester — and translating that honest accounting into a project plan you can actually follow. You'll learn how to establish writing routines that generate their own momentum, how to make clear-headed decisions when several manuscripts are competing for your attention and none has an imminent deadline, and how to push through the motivational dip that tends to hit once the initial excitement of free time fades. The session also addresses how to match specific types of writing tasks — generative drafting, structural revision, citation work, light editing — to the kinds of time blocks you realistically have available.
You'll walk away with a working plan built around your own schedule, strategies for holding yourself accountable without external pressure, and a clearer sense of how to make this stretch of independent time the writing breakthrough you've been waiting for.
Making Time to Publish During Administration: Writing Strategies for Department Chairs and Directors
Stepping into a department chair role rarely means stepping back from scholarly expectations, yet the job has a way of consuming exactly the kind of focused, uninterrupted time that serious writing demands. Between personnel matters, accreditation cycles, budget negotiations, and the steady stream of faculty and students who need something from you right now, the cognitive and emotional bandwidth required for research can feel permanently out of reach. The problem isn't just time scarcity. It's the particular difficulty of shifting gears between the reactive, relational mode that leadership requires and the slow, inward attention that writing demands. Many chairs look up after two or three years to find manuscripts languishing, conference commitments unfulfilled, and a growing unease about what their scholarly profile will look like when they return to the faculty ranks. That erosion is not inevitable, but preventing it requires a different approach than the one that worked before you took the role.
This workshop offers practical strategies specifically designed for the fragmented reality of academic leadership. You'll learn how to identify and protect the writing time that does exist within a chair's schedule and how to enter and exit that time efficiently enough to make it genuinely productive. The session covers how to structure long-term writing projects so they can survive weeks of irregular attention without losing coherence, how to delegate strategically with writing preservation as an explicit goal, and how to set boundaries that are firm without being alienating. You'll also explore how your administrative vantage point can itself become scholarly material and how to stay meaningfully connected to your research community even when collaboration feels logistically impossible.
You'll leave with a time-blocking approach calibrated to a leader's unpredictable schedule, a project management framework for keeping multiple manuscripts alive simultaneously, and a clear-eyed strategy for finishing your administrative tenure with a research agenda still visibly in motion.
Becoming a Public Scholar: Building a Digital Presence That Extends Your Research Reach
Many faculty complete excellent work that remains largely invisible beyond the journal or press where it appears. Publishing in peer-reviewed venues is no longer enough to ensure that your scholarship finds the audience, collaborators, and influence it deserves. Yet most academics receive little guidance on how to share their work through contemporary digital channels, how to present their expertise to audiences outside their immediate discipline, or how to build the kind of professional online presence that opens doors to new partnerships and opportunities. Without intentional effort to make scholarship public, strong research quietly underperforms, professional networks stay narrow, and institutions receive less recognition than the quality of their faculty's work warrants.
This workshop offers a practical, step-by-step approach to building a digital academic identity that works for you. You'll learn how to set up and optimize your ORCID profile to accurately represent your scholarly contributions across platforms, and how to use LinkedIn strategically to reach both academic and professional audiences beyond your home discipline. The session covers techniques for translating your research into accessible summaries that engage broader communities without sacrificing intellectual credibility, approaches for networking online in ways that generate genuine collaborative relationships, and methods for using social media to increase your work's visibility without turning content creation into another full-time obligation. You'll also explore how a stronger public profile reflects well on your department and institution, creating a shared stake in your digital presence.
You'll leave with a complete, polished digital academic profile, ready-to-use templates for sharing research findings publicly, and a sustainable practice for maintaining your online presence without it consuming your schedule.
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