How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Lifetools: Books for the General Public) By Paul J. Silvia ISBN: 9781591477433 EAN: 8580001050805 Published: 2007 Number of Pages: 149 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn Description: 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.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2006023493
   - LC control Number: 2006023493

International Standard Book Number: 1591477433: 1591477433 (pbk.): 9781591477433: 9781591477433 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: PE1408
   - Item number: .S48787 2007

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 808/.042

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Silvia, Paul J.,
   - Personal name: Silvia, Paul J.,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1976-

Title Statement
   - Title: How to write a lot :
   - Remainder of title: a practical guide to productive academic writing /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: by Paul J. Silvia.
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Paul J. Silvia
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Paul J. Silvia.

Edition Statement: 1st ed: 1st ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Washington, DC :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: American Psychological Association,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2007.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2007
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2007.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xii, 149 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 21 cm
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-141) and index
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-141) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- Specious barriers to writing a lot -- Motivational tools -- Starting your own agraphia group -- A brief foray into style -- Writing journal articles -- Writing books -- "The good things still to be written" -- Good books about writing: Introduction -- Specious barriers to writing a lot -- Motivational tools -- Starting your own agraphia group -- A brief foray into style -- Writing journal articles -- Writing books -- "The good things still to be written" -- Good books about writing.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Academic writing
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Academic writing.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: English language
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Research.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Writing.
   - General subdivision: Rhetoric
   - General subdivision: Rhetoric.