Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing

I think this book is better titled "How to Write When You Just Don't Feel Like Writing." There's a lot of information about "writers block" and the author provides a basic four-step plan (which actually has five steps) to get back on track. I didn't feel there was anything professor-specific in the book, and the recommendations are pretty basic (just start writing!) even with some clinical-sounding language. The two best parts of the book were the impressive bibliography (even though the author's own works take up 10 of the 100 citations) and using the four/five-step plan under different conditions (starting a new project, resuming a disrupted project, and dealing with rejected projects). Overall, not bad, but there are many better show more works in the crowded how-to-write field (my favorites are by Peter Elbow).

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This is a book on academic writing that I read to prepare for a symposium on academic productivity that I'm participating in at a conference. Boice is an expert in the area of writing blocks and ways to address them. His advice - including free writing and regularly schedule writing periods - is practical. I didn't find anything terribly surprising in this book, but it did reinforce useful ideas I've picked up from other sources.

Some good advice, but I am not into all the charts and stuff. I think this would have been really useful if I were actually blocked and not just in need of some organization strategies.