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u/ommm232 · 41 pointsr/AskAcademia

So this is a good book to look at: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Your-Journal-Twelve-Weeks/dp/141295701X

It’s specifically tailored to helping you make your longer papers (dissertation/thesis) into an article for publication. I’d start there !

u/ManicDigressive · 3 pointsr/IWantToLearn

I'm working on my MA right now, and this term I've taken a writing seminar for academic publishing.

This class has changed my life.

This book and this book were required for the class, and they have been really, REALLY helpful to me.

If you get the books, just ignore the parts that aren't relevant for you. "How to Write a Lot" is specifically about academic publication in the field of Psychology, but it is written in a way that is clear, makes sense, and relates way more to building better work/study habits than it deals specifically with publication. It's worth getting just for the parts that will be relevant to you.

Belcher's work-book is less relevant, but it has a lot of great advice on how to write better papers, and it covers pretty much every discipline.

You should seriously spend the $10 on "How to Write a Lot," you won't regret it. In case you don't...

How to Stop Procrastinating and Study More

For me, the problem was "writer's block." For you it's procrastination. They are two different names for the same thing. The solution to them sounds extremely unpleasant... until you try it.

You have to study every day. Yes, every day.

Currently, if you are like how I have been for about the last 20 years, you wait until a few days before your test or class or whatever, and then you spend hours upon hours studying until you are exhausted and pretty much hate whatever you were studying, right? If you get around to studying at all?

Stop doing that.

You know what kind of person you are, morning person, night owl, whatever.

Want to make it easier on yourself? Spend the next week recording everything you do over the course of every day- every hour should be accounted for. You don't have to share this with anyone, so if you spent an hour jerking it... well... that's fine, but it's probably time better spent studying.

When you do this, you will find that you are not as busy as you feel like you are. You probably have one hour from every day that you could use to do something more productive.

Even if you only use half an hour every day for studying, doing it EVERY DAY is what is essential. You have to turn the process of binge-studying and procrastination into a daily habit.

If you are like me, this sounds absurd, and you are probably thinking you aren't going to do this because it sounds stupid and won't work.

That was what I thought, until I did it.

I thought, "but I can't just MAKE myself write (study), I have to be in the mood for it."

No, you don't. If you do it every day you will find out it's actually really easy to pick things up and put them back down again, once you know it will happen every day.

It ceases to be some stressful thing you have to actively think of and remember to do.

If you KNOW that from 3pm to 4pm every weekday, you will be studying, then it becomes completely natural to pick up your books, work at things for a while, and then put them away at the end of it and move on to whatever else you want to do for the day.

"But I won't remember what I was working on."

Yes, you will. You don't remember what you study from your marathon sessions because you can't process that much shit at once.

If you spend about an hour every day on it, it becomes much more easy and natural to recall what you were studying. In fact, you will probably find yourself thinking about it more often than you ever would have expected of yourself.

"But people interrupt me."

Of course they do, people interrupt everything. But you don't say "I'm too busy to go to work/class," because that's absurd. It's an obligation, so you do it.

You need to jealously guard your study time. I'm not saying you can't be flexible and shift things around to be most convenient for you, but if you have your dedicated "study time" blocked off and a friend wants to go party, tell them you can't, but in an hour you'll be free.

Your friends are horrible influences. They WILL try to get you to do fun things instead. Mine did, and most of the time I listened to them.

Now, I don't. I get my shit done, and I feel immensely less stressed because of it. The time I invest on writing rarely ever actually interferes with plans I have made, or even spur-of-the-moment stuff that comes up.

"But I'm busy every Saturday/sunday/Whatever."

That's fine. Take a day off, have a day where you just enjoy yourself and don't study, but make sure that you develop a schedule for studying, and stick to it. Make it a time you know works well for you.

Lastly, your "study time" doesn't have to be strictly you, cramming from books, day after day. Use this time to work on homework, to organize your notes, to work on all of the shit that is related to studying that you need to work on, including studying itself. Studying is the act of studying, sure, but "studying" also includes working on homework, emailing professors, contacting peers you study with, organizing notes; whatever you can think of that is tied into the process of studying, this is your dedicated time to do that stuff.

Some days, you just won't feel up to cracking open the books, and that's fine. Use that day to organize your notes, or email your teacher that question you've been wondering about, or whatever. What, specifically, you do, is less important than blocking off the time so you can work on what you need to work on. Some days WILL be less productive than others, and that's okay, because you will be studying again tomorrow, and you can make up for it tomorrow, or the next day, or whenever; the point is, since you aren't procrastinating and binging on studying all at once, you KNOW that you will have regularly scheduled time to work on things.

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As far as how to actually study better, being organized and breaking tasks into groups of things that need to be done helps, but ultimately the best way to do this is read up about different things people do, different strategies/techniques, and try them out. Some will work for you, some won't. I'm a visual/tactile learner, if I write something down it tends to stick; if I hear it and don't write it down, it's gone.




I'm at work right now, but I'll be heading home soon, if you are interested I can put some of the material from the book up here for you, so let me know if you'd like that.

u/jlec · 2 pointsr/AskAcademia

I too am a PhD student in Japan. The open secret is that academic publishing is kind of a joke here, and just self-publishing your thesis and pumping out crap it in your university's Kiyo is enough to come off as respectable.

But of course, just because you can get away with doing very little doesn't mean you should. Here's what I would recommend:

  1. Find journals you like in your area and read them religiously. There's no "right" journal to publish in; remember, *you are the one that decides that part. But whatever you pick, aim high and go for the top ones in that subfield, and make sure you have four or five you read as a matter of habit. Gradually you'll get a feel for the subject matter, terminology, paper structures, hot research topics, etc etc. The important thing is that you have role models to emulate, in terms of authors, papers and journals.

  2. Buy this book. It'll baby-step you through writing your first paper in 12 weeks. Follow the regimen religiously:

    http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Journal-Article-Twelve-Weeks/dp/141295701X

u/XenoPhanatiK · 1 pointr/slavelabour

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