Interlude: Robert Boice's Professors as Writers (Introduction)

I am taking a break from the intense reflective writing that has typified this blog for a look at a book I purchased at the Duluth Public Library book sale today.  I'll probably wander through this $1.50 find for the next few days.  Boice is also discussed by other bloggers (for example, Agraphia)

Boice's program to get professor writing includes four stages:

• Establish momentum and ideas with unself-conscious techniques
• Arrange external situations to ensure regular, productive writing
• Manage self-control of cognition and emotions
• Create social support, develop writing skills, and understand your audience

This all seems like good, common-sense advice.  But I imagine that it helps to have it articulated.  Very few doctoral programs train faculty in how to write, in how to self-identify as a writer.

I think that I have, myself, wasted vast amounts of time powering through writing tasks in lousy external (material and psychological) situations, for example.

Part of being a Peak Performing Professor includes writing, so this seems to fit the goal of this blog.  And this will get me out of my navel for a few days.