{"id":797,"date":"2012-11-03T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/?p=797"},"modified":"2012-11-24T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T16:50:38","slug":"academic-writing-month-acwrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/2012\/11\/03\/academic-writing-month-acwrimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Writing Month (#AcWriMo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out about Academic Writing Month via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/higher-education-network\/blog\/2012\/nov\/01\/academic-writing-month-acwrimo-research?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">this link<\/a> posted on Twitter by <a href=\"http:\/\/ctlt.ubc.ca\/\">CTLT<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s a cousin to National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo), during which people commit to completing a 50000 word draft of a novel. For #AcWriMo, the scope is broader: anyone engaged in academic writing can commit to a giant goal and go for it! What struck me most when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phd2published.com\/2012\/10\/15\/announcing-acwrimo\/\">reading about it<\/a>\u00a0was the acknowledgement that December is supposed to be a time of celebration, and yet it ends up being packed with work put off while classes are in session. Since May I&#8217;ve been trying to prioritize my mental and physical well-being, and #AcWriMo actually fits with that spirit. I happened to tweet I was interested, and the organizers (@PhD2Published) were so encouraging I decided to dive in and set some goals! Because we all know there&#8217;s good research evidence on the power of publicly declaring your goals, I offer them here. It may not meet a 50000 word mark, but these are the projects I aim to complete by November 30:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.students.ubc.ca\/cs\/main?pname=subjarea&amp;tname=subjareas&amp;req=3&amp;dept=PSYC&amp;course=312A\">History of Psychology<\/a> paper comparing my life journey in psychology to a famous psychologist. I&#8217;m choosing Mary Calkins, our first female APA President. (12 Pages)<\/del> <em>Finished November 6. 4494 words.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.students.ubc.ca\/cs\/main?pname=subjarea&amp;tname=subjareas&amp;req=3&amp;dept=PSYC&amp;course=508\">Teaching of Psychology<\/a> grad seminar course syllabus in preparation for next term (~8 pages, draft already complete) <em>Progress November 13.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ethics application to study the learning outcomes of the Teaching of Psychology course (~5 pages) <em>Progress November 15.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><del>Finish grant application for Peer Review software\/services Review (with collaborators) (~5 pages, draft already complete).<\/del> <em>Finished November 14.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Complete draft of Team Testing manuscript (with N. Mirriahi from Arts ISIT) (~30 pages; currently have draft of 5 pages)\u00a0<em>Progress November 19.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnapubs.com\/\">Magna<\/a> proposal for e-seminar on Active Learning in Large Classes (~3 pages)<\/li>\n<li>Active Learning manuscript for publication (~20-30 pages; already 2 pages of notes collected)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow, that list includes everything I had planned to complete by the end of December. Some are already in progress but just need that extra push. #AcWriMo just may do the trick! Wouldn&#8217;t it be fabulous to have them done before December (at least in draft form)? So there they are, my goals for November. I&#8217;ll update as I go&#8230; now&#8230; time to begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out about Academic Writing Month via this link posted on Twitter by CTLT. \u00a0It&#8217;s a cousin to National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo), during which people commit to completing a 50000 word draft of a novel. For #AcWriMo, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/2012\/11\/03\/academic-writing-month-acwrimo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Academic Writing Month (#AcWriMo)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4280,4281],"tags":[416558,8856,4881,1725,1230],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-from-life-experiences","category-reflections-from-professional-development-activities","tag-acwrimo","tag-high-expectations","tag-syllabus","tag-to-do-list","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}