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Writing Habits

Writing Habits. From 15 Minutes a Day to Peer Writing Groups. Write every day Know your audience & moves Make linkages Create space. Take Aways. List all the types of documents you write in your professional life What is the most difficult part of writing for you?

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Writing Habits

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  1. Writing Habits From 15 Minutes a Day to Peer Writing Groups

  2. Write every day • Know your audience & moves • Make linkages • Create space Take Aways David S. Martins - UWP

  3. List all the types of documents you write in your professional life • What is the most difficult part of writing for you? • What writing practices have you found most successful? • What about writing gives you pleasure? Writing Prompts David S. Martins - UWP

  4. There are two types of [dissertations]: Perfect ones Completed ones • “15- minutes” a day • Read • Use tech tools • Share Every day David S. Martins - UWP

  5. Writers acquire and strategically deploy genre knowledge as they participate in their field’s or profession’s knowledge-producing activities. Berkenkotterand Huckin 1995 Audience, Purpose & Genre David S. Martins - UWP

  6. e.g., Journal Articles Write for a journal What’s the conversation? What do you want to say? What are typical and atypical forms? Learn the Genre(s) • Know the “moves” made in a text • Know how to make those moves • Ask peers questions • Ask for examples Audience, Purpose & Genre David S. Martins - UWP

  7. I hope in this book to describe intellectual writing as a fluid and social activity and to offer to you some strategies, some moves as a writer, for participating in it. –Joseph Harris Academic Moves David S. Martins - UWP

  8. Link to Institute mission and priorities, not just disciplinary questions & conversations • Avoid bifurcation, when possible – link teaching-research-service Linkages David S. Martins - UWP

  9. Support Groups • Regular talk • Writing Retreats • Episodic, a space to work, collective focus & energy • Writing Groups • Regular draft exchange Create Space David S. Martins - UWP

  10. If you are or have been in a Support or Writing Group, what has been its best aspects? • When you receive feedback on your writing, what do you appreciate most? Writing Group Experiences David S. Martins - UWP

  11. Opportunities Affinity Groups Discipline Cohort Location Exigency Technology Challenges • Feedback – learning how to give feedback to peers • Scheduling – when, how often, where? • Commitment – giving time (e.g., reading, writing comments, meeting to discuss, revising) Writing Groups David S. Martins - UWP

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