100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix Them
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 11: Reading What You‘ve Written Too Often (plus Writing Bookmarks)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In spite of setting aside ample time to write, do you find that you’re not as productive as you’d like to be? This episode explores the dual mista...
Episode 10: Underestimating the Impact of Opportunistic Writing
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It can seem difficult to find time to write when your schedule gets busy, especially if you believe that you can only get substantive work done if you...
Rebroadcast: Being Seduced by the Finished Page
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While we're away for Labor Day, we're rebroadcasting one of our most popular past episodes, Being Seduced by the Finished Page. In the new intro, t...
Bonus Track: Continued Interview with Dr. Rebecca Roache
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this is a continuation of my conversation with Dr. Rebecca Roache, she talks more about her podcast, "The Academic Imperfectionist," including disc...
Episode 9: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Roache, the Academic Imperfectionist
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the spirit of spreading news about support available to faculty writers, we have special episode this week to promote another podcast designed to h...
Episode 8: Mismanaging the Start-of-School-Year Transition
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you had that holy-cow-where-did-the-summer-go moment yet? Are the long days of summer giving way to the creeping angst of August? If you wonder...
Episode 7: Sacrificing Writing to Do Excessive Research
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s be honest: for most of us, doing research is just more gratifying than writing. But a problem arises when the joys and safety of research ecli...
Episode 6: Fearing Reviewers' Comments
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So a journal or publisher is interested in work that you've submitted. That's great! But now you have to face the reviewers' comments. Maybe you've ha...
Episode 5: Process Writing with Erica Kaufman
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this special listener-request episode, I do a deep dive into process/metacognitive writing with Erica Kaufman, poet, writer, and Director of the In...
Episode 4: Overestimating How Much Writing You Can Get Done
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In psychology, they call it optimism bias—that is the tendency to project productivity based on hopes for the future rather than on evidence from th...
Episode 3 Bonus: Continued Interview with Professor Cynthia Core
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this bonus track in my continued my conversation with Professor Cynthia Core, she shares how she's supporting her fellow faculty writers at George...
Episode 3: Mismanaging the Summer Break
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the academic year, it’s easy look at the summer as the time when major writing will get done, when long simmering projects will be brough...
Episode 2: Being seduced by the finished page
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We spend so much time reading published writing that we forget that the finished product generally comes at the end of a necessarily messy process. Le...
Episode 1: Reading too many books about writing
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Books about writing can seem so assuring. But reading too many can over-inform and confuse your writing process. If you’ve accumulated many books t...
Introduction
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to 100 Mistakes Academics Make...and How to Fix Them, a new podcast for academics and other writers who need to get work done.