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There is a version of peer review preparation that looks more like fortification. You revise and revise, patch every gap you can anticipate, and submit hoping that reviewers will find nothing to critique.
And, believe me, I understand tha...
Most of us know our work needs a strong significance claim, but actually writing one can feel surprisingly difficult. I doubt that’s simply because writers don’t understand their projects. Often, it’s because we’ve been trained as scholars...
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“Sustainable writing” is a phrase I use often in my work with scholars, and I want to be clear about what I mean—and what I don’t mean—when I invoke it.
I don’t mean writing that is slow by default, or wr...
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Picture the paragraph you’ve been avoiding all week. The one with the argument that almost works but keeps slipping out from under you when you try to pin it down. You’ve rewritten the topic sentence four...
In today’s episode, I’m reflecting on what a year of lifting heavy weights has taught me about writing. When I first started working with genuinely heavy weights, I realized that the hard part was not only physical. My brain often told me t...
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Hi, I am Verena! I’m an academic, teacher, editor, and writing coach, interested in process over performance, clarity and polish, and the slow, imperfect work that makes ideas possible. I love coffee, books, dogs and cats, travel.
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