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Writing Tips to Get Your Manuscript Out

Writing Tips to Get Your Manuscript Out

Some tips that I gave during my talk at the Public Management Research Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, June 23rd, 2016.

Raul Pacheco-Vega

June 23, 2016
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    Writing Tips for Doctoral Students, Early
    Career Scholars and Busy Professors:
    Getting Your Manuscript Out
    Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega
    Public Administration Division
    Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
    Public Management Research Conference 2016
    Aarhus, Denmark, June 23, 2016

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  2. Challenges facing most academics…
    Images: © Jorge
    Cham, PhDComics

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  3. Writing more vs. Writing smart
    My suggestions to my own doctoral students are
    predicated around three main topics:
    1. Writing as discipline
    2. Writing as method
    3. Writing as self-reflection and self-care

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  4. Who am I?

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  5. My Top 10 Academic Writing Tips (1/2)
    1. Be disciplined and write every day.
    2. Give yourself the best tools to write.
    3. Write as you would speak (aka read aloud what you just
    wrote).
    4. Have other people read your pieces to provide you with
    feedback.
    5. Read a lot, and read across different disciplines.

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  6. My Top 10 Academic Writing Tips (2/2)
    6. Write for your audience.
    7. Write without interruptions
    8. Take care of yourself.
    9. Practice your writing. Write a lot.
    10. When stuck, write by hand.

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  7. Reading will help you write…
    • Reading a journal
    article in the morning
    (with your coffee?) 
    • Read-as-you-write
    (summarize your
    readings)

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  8. Write to explain things
    • Answer questions (each
    paragraph/section
    answers a question)
    • Reverse outlines help

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  9. Write around your data
    • Paragraph before the
    graph:
    • What will the data
    table/graph tell you?
    • Why is it important?
    • Paragraph after the
    graph
    • What the data
    • What are the most
    important elements of
    dataset?
    • Limitations of analysis

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  10. Helpful links from my own blog
    Responding to reviewer comments
    http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/06/how-to-respond-to-reviewer-
    comments-the-drafts-review-matrix/
    Synthesizing different bodies of literature
    http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/06/synthesizing-different-bodies-of-
    work-in-your-literature-review-the-conceptual-synthesis-excel-dump-
    technique/
    Searching for the literature
    http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/06/how-to-do-a-literature-review-
    citation-tracing-concept-saturation-and-results-mind-mapping/
    Writing a full paper in 8 steps
    http://www.raulpacheco.org/2016/04/8-tips-to-write-a-research-paper-
    from-start-to-finish-relatively-quick-and-easy/

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  11. [email protected]
    http://www.raulpacheco.org
    @raulpacheco (Twitter)
    Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega

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