Great little book | How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

A good challenge for writers | How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing | Paul J. Silvia

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	• How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing Paul J. Silvia American Psychological Association (APA), 2007 - 149 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

fantastic book

The book is very readable, to-the-point, and its arguments are well-supported. Silvia takes a behavioral approach to writing, focusing on how to form effective writing habits. His book is focused on the field of psychology, but his methods are certainly applicable to non-fiction writing in other areas as well.

Great little book

I implemented some of the suggestions in this well-written guide as I was still reading it. And I will keep using them because they WORK. It's worthy of a place on my bookshelf, but I have to admit it's not up there -- because I continue to use it and to show it to everyone I know in the throes of scholarly writing.

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A good challenge for writers

This book challenged me to change my behavior! It caused me to examine why I haven't been writing and to stop making excuses. I've made progress, but still trying to put it all into practice.

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good advice

This book has good advice for those who want to be more productive writers. His basic point is that writing for many people is an unpleasant task, so the only way to do it is to treat it as work and schedule it as you would your other work. He contrasts this way of writing with what he calls binge writing. Binge writers put off writing as much as possible but when they come to a deadline they panic and do a great deal in a short time. He produces evidence to show that this is an unproductive way of writing. He also examines some of the excuses that people use to put off writing and shows them to be irrational. I found this section interesting and would have liked to have seen more here, especially regarding writer's block which afflicts almost all writers from time to time. All in all, though, it's a good book: short, simple and useful.

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All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul J. Silvia explains that writing productively does not require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks and become prolific without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives detailed advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles; how to improve writing quality; and how to write and publish academic work.

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