PUBLISHING ACADEMIC RESEARCH | Complete Your Scholarship, Thesis, or Dissertation, Maintain Your Mental Health, and Enhance Y

Using Theory in Academic Research | Ep. 64

Are you struggling to figure out what your theoretical framework is actually supposed to do? Are you treating theory like a requirement to check off rather than a tool th

Overseeing an Academic Edited Book: Interview with Dr. Amy Aldridge | Ep. 63

Hey Co-authors! Today, I interview scholar-activist Amy Aldridge, Vice Provost and Communication professor at Middle Tennessee State University, about her edited book, "R

Rejecting Bad Academic Writing Advice | Ep. 62

Have you ever followed a piece of writing advice that made your writing worse instead of better? What if some of the advice you've been given isn't actually wrong, it jus

Avoiding Writing Paragraphs That Do Too Much | Ep. 61

Have you ever finished writing a paragraph only to realize it somehow contains three different ideas? Have you ever written a paragraph that makes perfect sense to you, o

Starting a New Semester with Purpose | Ep. 60

Are you starting the semester feelings of excitement, exhaustion, regret, or somehow all three at once? What happens when the energy of a new academic year gives way to t

Starting Your Literature Review: Interview with Dr. Nichole Harken | Ep. 59

Are you having trouble starting a new project? Do you feel like you're drowning in a sea of scholarship? Hey co-authors! Today, I talk with Dr. Nichole Harken, who is th

Writing for an Audience of One | Ep. 58

Who exactly are you writing for when you’re writing an academic article, chapter, or book? What if the fastest way to make your writing clearer, more confident, and more

Breaking out of ADHD Writing Traps | Ep. 57

Have you ever followed all the "correct" writing advice and still struggled to make progress? What if the problem isn't your writing ability, but the writing process you'

Being a Good Research Co-Author | Ep. 56

Have you ever wondered what your name really means when it appears beside someone else's on a manuscript? Is coauthorship simply dividing the work, or is it something muc

Writing Research when You Don't Want To | Ep. 55

Why is it so hard to start writing when you know exactly what needs to be done? What if your lack of progress is a perfectly normal human response to difficult cognitive

Applying for Tenure and/or Promotion with Confidence | Ep. 54

How do you apply for tenure and/or promotion with confidence when so much of the process feels uncertain? What if the biggest obstacle to a successful application isn't y

Being Bored as a Path to Productivity | Ep. 53

What if the moments when you're not writing are actually the moments that make your writing better? Could stepping away from your research sometimes be more productive th

Recovering when Someone Else Publishes Your Idea | Ep. 52

What do you do when you discover someone else has already published the idea you've been developing for months or even years? How do you recover when a project that once

Creating Order from Chaos in the Writing Process | Ep. 51

 How does a pile of disconnected notes become a polished dissertation chapter, article, or book? Why does every successful research project seem to have to pass through a

Podcasting as Research | Ep. 50

Have you ever thought about developing a podcast as a part of your scholarship? Do you worry about what others might say if you’re not doing so-called “real” research? H

Starting a Research Agenda as a New Professor | Ep. 49

Have you ever wondered why your research seemed to move effortlessly in graduate school, only to stall once you became a professor? Have you been recently hired or are lo

Reading Scholarship like a Researcher | Ep. 48

Have you ever felt like no matter how much you read you still feel behind? Or have you ever finished an article and realized you understood the content, but had no idea h

Creating Clear Research: Interview with Dr. Jack Baker | Ep. 47

Do you get told to “write for your reader” but don’t really know what that means? Have you given a presentation that you felt hit all the right details, but didn’t seem t

Generating Doable Research Projects | Ep. 46

Have you ever felt stuck trying to choose a research topic, not because you lack interest, but because it seems like you want to study everything? Or have you been told y

Preventing Narrative Tension Collapse in Your Writing | Ep. 45

Have you ever read an academic article or chapter that technically said all the right things, but still felt impossible to keep reading? Or have you ever looked at your o