An anecdote for those of us struggling to FINISH papers:

Growing up, I played competitive tennis. At a tournament, I was playing with a guy whose forehand was incredibly powerful, but whose backhand wasn't as strong. I remember my Dad telling me "stay with his backhand".
I have a pretty decently strong two-handed backhand, but I didn't know if I would be able to overpower this guy. But I just kept throwing the ball back as hard as I could until he made a mistake.

Coming back to academics: stay with The Work, friends. It's hard, I know.
I am about to return a chapter to my editor, and what I thought this morning was: "I need to stay with this chapter. I may be tired, and potentially sick of revising it, but I need to stay with it".

(sometimes I do focus on other projects to get refreshed, of course).
And now I am a decent 15 minutes away from finishing it up. Words have been flowing, and I'm happy.

Even though I'm a Gretchen Rubin Upholder, sometimes it's hard for me to finish stuff. But I hear my Dad in my head: "stay with his backhand".

Keep plowing away, friends.

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More from @raulpacheco

9 Mar
THIS BOOK.

I think it was Dr. @KathrynNowotny who recommended this book to me.

If you use ethnography to study illicit behaviour this book is a must read.
As someone who studies vulnerable populations (individuals experiencing homelessness, toilet-insecure and water-insecure people, and informal waste pickers) I’m fascinated by how different disciplines and fields categorize “vulnerable populations”
I have an anecdote to share: one of my best research assistants and Masters's students has ALWAYS been interested in drug policy and in studying individuals using drugs. HOWEVER she pivoted to my own research interests because she wanted to do her thesis with me.

NEVERTHELESS:
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7 Mar
My life post-pandemic is definitely going to be:
- less travel
- fewer academic conferences
- fewer commitments
- more Work-From-Home
- more intense in-person experiences (workshops, short modules, etc).

I don’t want to live in a world with crushing commutes/too many cars.
I’m also done with living out of a suitcase.

It’s amazing how the love and care of your dear friends leads them to ask important questions that you only ponder during a pandemic.

My dear friend @AWutich asked me @ #AAG2018 why did I travel so much. At the time I didn’t get it
But one year later, I am floored at how much more widely read and discussed my work is, and I’m not even attending or presenting at conferences!

I travelled a lot partly for fieldwork, partly to establish myself as an authority in my field (giving keynote talks, etc.)
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7 Mar
Carole McGranahan does not use Twitter anymore, but I remain in touch with her on a regular basis. Nevertheless I did not know she had edited a volume in writing, which is spectacular, a must-read volume which will be useful to teach academic writing not only to anthropologists. ImageImageImageImage
You will recognise many authors and essays because they were published online first on the Savage Minds blog, now anthro[dendum] anthrodendum.org

Carole compiled 53 essays, wrote a few of her own, and editorialized them all into a neat volume, inspired by @ruthbehar
Carole is an extraordinarily good writer and it’s lovely to see her pay homage to the incomparable Ruth Behar.

I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone, not just anthropologists and ethnographers, because there’s a piece of advice for everyone who writes. Amazing book </end> ImageImage
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4 Mar
Esta pregunta me permite hacer un HILO para mi Twitter hispanoparlante.

Esta pregunta SIEMPRE me la han hecho mis estudiantes y mis asistentes de investigación: "profesor, debo leer un artículo más? O ya puedo empezar a escribir?

Mi sugerencia: leer hasta llegar a SATURACIÓN.
A qué se refiere la Saturación Conceptual? A que el mismo concepto siga apareciendo una y otra vez. Los mismos autores/las mismas autoras. El mismo artículo aparece citado de forma repetida en varios artículos, libros, o capítulos de libro. Aquí mi post: raulpacheco.org/2016/06/how-to…
El problema de leer sin estructura ni organización es que terminamos descargando y leyendo y releyendo el mismo artículo una y otra vez. La estructura es FUNDAMENTAL así como la organización y sistematización de los materiales de lectura. Yo utilizo un proceso muy sistemático.
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4 Mar
HILO para Twitter hispanoparlante.

La misma pregunta que hace mi colega y amiga @EvaOArceo me la han hecho estudiantes que me siguen en Twitter:

Cómo aprender a redactar mejor en castellano?

A mí me cuentan maravillas del material de la profesora Venier (QEPD) y de sus cursos
Personalmente, creo que más que manuales de redacción, gramática, etc., el estudiantado necesita leer mucho, tanto de literatura (ficción) como de material técnico, para ir mejorando su lectura.

Alguien recomendó "Economical Writing" y estoy 100% de acuerdo, McCloskey is genial
Este es mi blog post (en inglés) sobre "Economical Writing" raulpacheco.org/2020/09/econom…

Para aprender argumentación, yo recomiendo el Weston "Las claves de la argumentación" sanborns.com.mx/producto/17028…

Weston tiene la genial habilidad de mostrar cómo se debe argumentar bien.
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3 Mar
THREAD: On using backcasting techniques and Overview Devices to revise the doctoral dissertation (chapter by chapter and/or the full draft). Applies to any thesis, for that matter. You can also extrapolate my strategy to revising a book manuscript as well (edited or solo author)
Recently, a doctoral student asked me "Professor Pacheco-Vega, how can I revise the full draft manuscript to a state where my advisor and committee can/will want to read it?"

Well, first off, advisors and committee SHOULD always want to read it, regardless of its state.
But I understand the question. This is the ages-old issue of "when is my writing good enough for someone else to read it?"

When I was younger, I was MUCH more of a perfectionist than I am right now (and by God, I AM a perfectionist, and no, I'm not gloating, it's a flaw!)
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