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The Academic Imperfectionist#102: Professor Stephanie Dunson on levelling up your writing processProfessor Stephanie Dunson is an award-winning scholar with over 20 years' experience as a writing process expert under her belt. She holds positions at Yale School of Management and the University of Connecticut's Department of English - and if you're thinking, 'Wow, that's quite a mix of disciplines!', that's because Stephanie's understanding of the process and practice of writing truly transcends disciplines. Come to think of it, it transends academia too: not only does Stephanie help academics, she also helps people in business use writing as tool to unlock insight and creativity. If you think of writing merely as...2025-01-241h 15
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Long Life LearningStephanie Dunson on Writing Your Way to Collaborative DiscoveryIf you’ve ever caught yourself about to correct a spelling mistake on a grocery list, this week's guest has advice for you: Stop! And reflect: Why? Yale School of Management Lecturer and reflective writing practitioner Stephanie Dunson joins Kavitha in the studio for a discussion about how the power of process writing moves us from inward reflection to outward, purposeful action. Stephanie encourages her students—of all ages—to let go of everything they’ve been taught about “right and wrong” in writing and embrace the metacognitive journey of pursuing uncertainty: What’s missing from their writing? Why di...2024-10-2831 min
Learning Through ExperienceReflective Practice Through WritingThis podcast season is all about the HOW of learning through experience. We learn through experience using four core practices: challenging your perspective, stretching and building range, directing your learning, reflection and inquiry. The core practice that we are paying attention to in this episode of Learning Through Experience is reflection and inquiry. In this episode, I spoke with reflective writing practitioner and teacher Stephanie Dunson about reflective practice through writing. We cover the practice of reflective writing, including the struggle of writing, and she offers some prompts for you to use in your own reflective writing pr...2024-05-2934 min
100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 11: Reading What You‘ve Written Too Often (plus Writing Bookmarks)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 mistakes that might surreptitiously be eating up your writing time.
2021-10-0412 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 10: Underestimating the Impact of Opportunistic WritingIt 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 have large, uninterrupted blocks of time to commit to it. But there's real value in making use of random short bits of time for writing even on your busiest days. In this episode, we'll explore why.
2021-09-2014 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemRebroadcast: Being Seduced by the Finished Page
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, there's information about my consulting webpage, stephaniedunson.com, where listeners can learn about my group workshops and advising services.
2021-09-0612 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemBonus Track: Continued Interview with Dr. Rebecca RoacheIn this is a continuation of my conversation with Dr. Rebecca Roache, she talks more about her podcast, "The Academic Imperfectionist," including discussing plans for upcoming episodes.
2021-08-2305 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 9: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Roache, the Academic ImperfectionistIn the spirit of spreading news about support available to faculty writers, we have special episode this week to promote another podcast designed to help you face the demands of scholarly life. It’s called “The Academic Imperfectionist,” and it’s hosted by our special guest, Dr. Rebecca Roache. She brings a philosopher’s perspective to bear in her exploration of many of the same challenges I aspire to address here on my show.
2021-08-2319 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 8: Mismanaging the Start-of-School-Year TransitionHave 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 how you'll manage all you'd planned to do over the summer and all you need to do to before the start the semester, if you feel like you're only starting to get into a writing groove just as those pre-semester emails are starting to trickle in, in short, if you’re concerned about the effect the transition to the school year will have on your writing routine, this episode is for you.
2021-08-0913 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemReview Day ReminderToday, August 2, is the day we're encouraging you to submit a review of our show on Apple Podcasts. This will do a lot to increase the visibility of our podcast across all platforms. If you do this, you'll get free access to my webinar on inferiority complex. And twenty of you will be randomly selected to receive a 30-minute writing consultation with me at no cost. For more details, go to 100writingmistakes.org and click the Coaching/Workshops/Promotions tab. Thanks!2021-08-0200 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemAugust 2 Special PromotionWant to help boost the visibility of our podcast? On Monday, August 2, if you post a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, I’ll send you a link to my webinar on the perils of the inferiority complex (which, paradoxically, is mainly a problem for high achievers). And here’s another bonus: of those who write reviews, twenty will be randomly selected to have an individual free 30-minute writing consultation with me. For more details, go to https://100writingmistakes.org/coaching-workshops/. Thanks!2021-07-3001 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 7: Sacrificing Writing to Do Excessive ResearchLet’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 eclipse our efforts to get writing done. If you too commonly feel like Alice tumbling down the old research rabbit hole, this episode is for you
2021-07-2719 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 6: Fearing Reviewers' CommentsSo 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 had bad experiences in the past, but shifting your perspective can help you learn to actually embrace the review process.
2021-07-1216 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 5: Process Writing with Erica KaufmanIn this special listener-request episode, I do a deep dive into process/metacognitive writing with Erica Kaufman, poet, writer, and Director of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College.
2021-06-2819 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 4: Overestimating How Much Writing You Can Get DoneIn psychology, they call it optimism bias—that is the tendency to project productivity based on hopes for the future rather than on evidence from the past. And if time allotted and writing produced rarely line up as you plan, you likely to suffer from it. For those of you who are among the multitudes who routinely overestimate how much writing you can get done in a set amount of time, this episode is for you.
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Faculty Focus LiveLive with Stephanie Dunson: Embracing the Messy Parts of Academic WritingIn episode 12, we chat with Stephanie Dunson, PhD, who recently started her own podcast: 100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix Them. In this interview, we talk about embracing the messy parts of writing and acknowledge that those messy parts are most often necessary to create a piece of published work. Additionally, Dunson explains how we can be so focused on the end result, that sometimes we forget to step back and acknowledge the gaps that we're missing in our own writing. She offers questions to think about when writing and how this can foster a...2021-06-1120 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 3: Mismanaging the Summer BreakThroughout 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 brought to completion, when things will quiet down, and we’ll finally meet deadlines we’ve put off. The problem is that summer almost never seems as long as we expect it to be and so by the end of the season, we’re left scrambling for and often falling short of the writing goals we set. In the discussion, I'm joined by Professor Cynthia Core from George Washington University.
2021-05-3118 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 3 Bonus: Continued Interview with Professor Cynthia CoreFor this bonus track in my continued my conversation with Professor Cynthia Core, she shares how she's supporting her fellow faculty writers at George Washington University.
2021-05-3107 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 2: Being seduced by the finished pageWe spend so much time reading published writing that we forget that the finished product generally comes at the end of a necessarily messy process. Learning to expect, accept, and embrace imperfect writing as a meaningful part of the process can have a surprisingly positive effect your productivity.
2021-05-1711 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemEpisode 1: Reading too many books about writing
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 that seemed like they’d help you but didn’t, this episode is for you.
2021-05-0310 min100 Mistakes Academic Writers Make...and How to Fix ThemIntroductionWelcome to 100 Mistakes Academics Make...and How to Fix Them, a new podcast for academics and other writers who need to get work done.
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