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Making Time for Research

Making time for YOUR research

1. Block out regular time 
2. Engage with stuff that stimulates thinking + writing.
 3. Be vigilant about the ways in which you waste time.
4. Use deadlines that work.
5. Beware the time-sucks that masquerade as researchresearchwhisperer.org/2011/09/06/time-for-research/.
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Tseen Khoo - LaTroub

Your research days should never be considered ‘free time’.
                                             -Tseen Khoo (The ResearchWhisperer.org)

Here's why finding time for research so difficult:

   - It's tricky
   - It takes resolve 
   - You may be afraid to fail
   - You may not know where to start
   - Your procrastinator nature kicks in
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​                                              - Bärbel Tress (Tressacademic.com)

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Do You Spend Over One-Third of Your Time on Research?

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Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist (UMass- Amherst)

​Tips from Mid-Career Faculty
​(Inside Higher Ed)

Research Productivity Ideas 

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How to Get it Done

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Beth Fischer and Michael Zigmond (Pitt)
20  Steps to Writing a Research Article

How to Write a Good Scientific Paper (109 pages)

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Chris A. Mack (Texas)
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Useful Advice that Works for Most Fields

Research Model Builder

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Ben Ellway (Canberra)
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Ben Ellway (Canberra)

Useful Tweets for Getting Research Finished

Getting it Published

25 Ways to Increase Your Chance of Getting Published

 Before Submission 
​No. 1. Follow submission guidelines. 
No. 2. This paper has too many typos and grammatical errors to be reviewed
No. 3. Peer review is not problem solving. 
No. 4. Do you know the audience of the journal? 
No. 5. Sharpen your abstract. 

The Article Itself
No. 6. How would you assess this article? 
No. 7. Who cares? 
No. 8. You need to hook the reader. 
No. 9. The logic of organization in this article is unclear. 
No. 10. Who are you writing for? 
No. 11. Who are you in conversation with? 
No. 12. Clarify your citational practices. 
No. 13. Stop putting other people’s voices ahead of your own, 
No. 14. Reader A wants more critical engagement with existing scholarship on X. 
No. 15. Make room for analytical engagement with quoted material. 
No. 16. Avoid theme spotting. 
No. 17. This paper is overly ambitious. 
No. 18. What do you want your reader to remember the most? 

After the Report 
No. 19. We won’t be moving forward with your article. 
No. 20. Both readers have given you detailed and careful feedback. 
No. 21. You can request your article not go back to Reader B upon resubmission. 
No. 22. Take the readers’ reports as advice. 
No. 23. Let me know what you’ve done. 
No. 24. Why didn’t you read the peer reviewers' recommendations? 
No. 25. Onward! . 
My paper got rejected! What now?Summarized and edited from Moss's 5-15-19 column published in Inside Higher Ed



​Elsevier's  Guide to Getting Your Research Published (31 pages)
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