{"id":19,"date":"2015-02-02T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:21:56","slug":"writing-tips-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/2015\/02\/02\/writing-tips-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing tips and tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I asked my Facebook colleagues for suggestions of resources on:\u00a0a) how to write a thesis effectively, and b) how to balance parenthood and academia. Here are the suggestions I received:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parenthood &amp; Academia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradhacker.org\/2014\/05\/14\/parenting-in-grad-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parenting in Grad School<\/a>&#8221; blog<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elrena Evans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mama-Ph-D-Women-Motherhood-Academic\/dp\/0813543185\/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1197355188&amp;sr=11-1\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mama PhD<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Academic Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s3\">Paul Silvia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/How-Write-Lot-Practical-Productive\/dp\/1591477433\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How to Write a Lot<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Robert Boice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Professors-Writers-Self-Help-Productive-Writing\/dp\/091350713X\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Professors as Writers<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please add further suggestions in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I asked my Facebook colleagues for suggestions of resources on:\u00a0a) how to write a thesis effectively, and b) how to balance parenthood and academia. Here are the suggestions I received: Parenthood &amp; Academia &#8220;Parenting in Grad School&#8221; blog Elrena Evans, Mama PhD Academic Writing Paul Silvia, How to Write a Lot Robert Boice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/normalbirth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}