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Today is the end of the month. While I am changing my work habits to respond properly to my physician's request ("work as much as like a normal person, not YOUR normal"), there are a number of practices I've sustained I hope to continue, and they might be of use to you all.
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1) At the end of every month, I write a list of my Accomplishments. Doing so helps me see what I have done, as small as it may look to others or even to me, on paper.
This month, I returned to in-person teaching (2 courses), and I AM ALIVE AND WELL.
raulpacheco.org/2021/05/writin…
This month, I returned to in-person teaching (2 courses), and I AM ALIVE AND WELL.
raulpacheco.org/2021/05/writin…
2) Also at the end of every month, I try to re-calibrate what I planned to do. I am heading to London for 2 weeks, with a few side trips to Portsmouth, Bath and Loughborough. This means I need to readjust what I expect to accomplish.
Be kind with myself raulpacheco.org/2021/06/on-mul…
Be kind with myself raulpacheco.org/2021/06/on-mul…
Every few months, I launch an #AICCSED Challenge.
What does this mean? For me, my simple system of #2ThingsADay often means that the only two things I get done in a day is reading a paper (and annotating) using the AIC method, and dropping it into a CSED spreadsheet.
What does this mean? For me, my simple system of #2ThingsADay often means that the only two things I get done in a day is reading a paper (and annotating) using the AIC method, and dropping it into a CSED spreadsheet.
What we do in the #AICCSED challenge:
We drop a tweet reporting which article we read and we (often, not required) post a screenshot of the CSED (Excel Dump) row associated with said article.
What's the purpose? To keep us reading, synthesizing and summarizing EVERY SINGLE DAY
We drop a tweet reporting which article we read and we (often, not required) post a screenshot of the CSED (Excel Dump) row associated with said article.
What's the purpose? To keep us reading, synthesizing and summarizing EVERY SINGLE DAY
A las 8 de la mañana empiezo mi primer bloque de tiempo de escritura con un grupo de colegas de diferentes universidades en todo el mundo, entonces tengo poquito tiempo para hacer este hilo, pero ahà va el inicio para Twitter hispanoparlante.
Pregunta @zepecaos sobre cĂłmo ...
Pregunta @zepecaos sobre cĂłmo ...
... motivarse para trabajar (en la tesis, en papers, en analizar datos, en leer, en todo!) en estos momentos. Primero que nada, reconozcamos que estas circunstancias son realmente muy extraordinarias y que hay millones de razones para estar viviendo con estrés.
Habiendo dicho Ă©sto, todos y todas mis estudiantes en algĂşn momento de su tesis (de licenciatura, de maestrĂa y de doctorado) sienten Ă©se mismo tipo de "bloqueo" (no tanto de escritura sino motivacional).
Lo que yo normalmente les sugiero son dos cosas que A MĂŤ me ayudan.
Lo que yo normalmente les sugiero son dos cosas que A MĂŤ me ayudan.
OK.
I just watered my Mom's garden, made coffee and now I can explain to you my 3,000 to 10,000 growth in number of words.
You can guess the TL;DR
I DO NOT WRITE 7,000 WORDS PER DAY.
I write papers based on a strategy called "Writing by Memorandum".
I write memorandums.
I just watered my Mom's garden, made coffee and now I can explain to you my 3,000 to 10,000 growth in number of words.
You can guess the TL;DR
I DO NOT WRITE 7,000 WORDS PER DAY.
I write papers based on a strategy called "Writing by Memorandum".
I write memorandums.
When I was in graduate school, I took courses on qualitative methods. One of the core ideas that I made mine was "writing memorandums" raulpacheco.org/2016/07/writin…
I write papers by assembling memos.
raulpacheco.org/2017/06/writin…
Yes, for those of you doing empirical work: I DO write...
I write papers by assembling memos.
raulpacheco.org/2017/06/writin…
Yes, for those of you doing empirical work: I DO write...
... memorandums about my data, my methods, analysis, results, etc.
In this post I gave you 8 sequential steps to quickly produce a Shitty First Draft (hat tips Anne Lamott) raulpacheco.org/2016/04/8-tips…
I always suggest assembling the paper about 70-80% of the way before finishing.
In this post I gave you 8 sequential steps to quickly produce a Shitty First Draft (hat tips Anne Lamott) raulpacheco.org/2016/04/8-tips…
I always suggest assembling the paper about 70-80% of the way before finishing.
Dadas las respuestas a mi encuesta, voy a hacer un hilo grande sobre escritura de artĂculos cientĂficos con dos sub-hilos (construcciĂłn del esqueleto del artĂculo y redacciĂłn de un borrador rápido de un documento).
Generalmente, mi trabajo es primordialmente empĂrico.
Generalmente, mi trabajo es primordialmente empĂrico.
Antes de que mis seguidores en inglés me pidan que construya el mismo hilo en dicho idioma, aclaro que estoy haciendo hilos basados en mi blog, por lo que el material fuente ya lo tienen en inglés.
Cómo mapear un campo de estudio raulpacheco.org/2018/01/mappin…
Cómo mapear un campo de estudio raulpacheco.org/2018/01/mappin…
Cómo redactar una revisión de literatura en 6 pasos: raulpacheco.org/2017/04/how-to…
CĂłmo generar un borrador rápido de un artĂculo en 8 pasos:
raulpacheco.org/2016/04/8-tips…
Redactando un artĂculo (desde la idea hasta el producto final):
raulpacheco.org/2017/06/writin…
CĂłmo generar un borrador rápido de un artĂculo en 8 pasos:
raulpacheco.org/2016/04/8-tips…
Redactando un artĂculo (desde la idea hasta el producto final):
raulpacheco.org/2017/06/writin…
Micro-thread on highlighting and scribbling. One critique of highlighting is that people (students?) tend to highlight EVERYTHING. Sure.
One reason why I colour-code highlights and marginalia is to avoid this. I change colors as I go deeper into the argument sequence.
I came back from Paris w/ 2 sets of highlighters (neon & pastel) so now I combine them and I feel I can be clearer 
Micro-thread on "dealing with The Dreaded Blank Page". I have been wanting to write a thread and a blog post on this topic for a very long time. When one of my PhD students told me "Dr. Pacheco-Vega, I don't know how to START a paper", I literally froze. I was like "BUT WHY?"
He explained that he had read plenty of scholarly papers, and so on, but STARTING was the challenge. I have written about how to write a first rough draft of a paper in 8 steps raulpacheco.org/2016/04/8-tips… and how to go from idea to a finished paper raulpacheco.org/2017/06/writin… Later on...
... I understood what he meant:
Facing The Dreaded Blank Page was VERY challenging to him.
Well, people, I have been writing for more than a decade and I am here to tell you that
a) Writing is hard
b) Writing well is VERY hard
c) Dread for the Dreaded Blank page is justified
Facing The Dreaded Blank Page was VERY challenging to him.
Well, people, I have been writing for more than a decade and I am here to tell you that
a) Writing is hard
b) Writing well is VERY hard
c) Dread for the Dreaded Blank page is justified
Long thread on #AcWri particularly focused on overcoming procrastination and "writer's block", and moving stuff forward. Each blog post will be linked to in a tweet, so please bear with me through a long thread. If you're not here for #AcWri stuff, do mute.
A while ago, I read Joli Jensen 's book "Write No Matter What". It's delightful and offers a really chill approach to #AcWri - sustain constant contact with a writing project you like, under very little pressure. My reading notes here - raulpacheco.org/2018/03/write-…
I wrote about the different things I do to sustain "constant, low pressure contact with a writing project that I like" (I shared this blog post with Joli herself, BTW and we had a nice chat about it) raulpacheco.org/2019/03/what-d…
This is a thread on goal-setting for graduate students using the tools I have developed, in response to Dr. @JaneLSumner 's request. More than a guide for my students, here's how I set my goals. In December, I plan my entire year (it's calendar year, more than academic year).
I used to do academic year but then I realized a lot of stuff isn't out (e.g. dates and locations) so I can't plan in August. My process looks like this raulpacheco.org/2016/12/my-yea… I recommend that my students do the same (plan their year). I have suggested they use Gantt charts.
So I wrote this guide raulpacheco.org/2018/10/planni… once they've figured out what they have to do per month, per semester, per year, THEN they can break down the work in smaller, workable, manageable pieces. raulpacheco.org/2016/05/my-dai… this still doesn't get to the SMART framework.
Good morning! Students (mine and others) as well as faculty members have asked me if I do have a particular sequence of blog posts about reading strategies, academic writing, literature reviews that I would recommend. I have to get my #2ThingsADay done, so here's a MICRO-THREAD.
For me, reading IS a fundamental component of writing raulpacheco.org/2018/01/legiti… this means that I have a dedicated section on Reading Strategies in my Resources page raulpacheco.org/resources/read… the Abstract-Introduction-Conclusion (AIC) method can be found here raulpacheco.org/2017/01/findin…
When my own students have to undertake a literature review, I ask of them to systematize their reading in an Excel table, the Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump (CSED) raulpacheco.org/2016/06/synthe… combining #AICCSED allows you to stay on top of the literature raulpacheco.org/2017/12/carvin…
