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| How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul J. Silvia
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (41 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3634
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 149
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1591477433
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9781591477433
ASIN: 1591477433
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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 Great little book September 17, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
A good challenge for writers September 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 good advice September 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Simple guide August 29, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Simple, prove the useful skill to "how to write A LOT", but not for "how to write" .
Pragmatic and simple as the truth July 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Doing my dissertation time by time I read these kind of books to motivate myself more than to get advice from them. This book is different, because it does not try to analyze all these psychological barriers why it is so difficulty to do an dissertation or to write academic texts. It simply is telling you the truth about writing processes. The good news is: it is simple and you can learn it, bad news is: writing will loose some of its glorious nimbus. But exactly that is the way it goes: you have to get routine day by day, month by month and so on. Why can I say that Silvia is telling the right things? Because I had to learn it by my own over the last few years. Unfortunately I did not read the book at the very beginning when I started to write my thesis. I really can recommend it and forget all the digging for the psychological barriers...
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