2021 Podcast Episodes

Every week Defend & Publish releases a new podcast. These podcasts are designed to help get you started (or restarted) on your academic writing projects. Check here or on Twitter for new content each week!

2021 Podcasts (SEASON 1):

Go to Episodes 40-52

  • Episode 40 – October 2: Post Your Thesis on the Wall
  • Episode 41 – October 9: Do You Need a Writing Coach?
  • Episode 42 – October 16: Year 2 is a Make or Break Year
  • Episode 43 – October 23: Five Steps for Effective Writing and Research Collaborations
  • Episode 44 – October 29: How to Address a Revise and Resubmit
  • Episode 45 – November 6: Modeling Writing for Your Graduate Students
  • Episode 46 – November 12: Using Asana to Manage a Big Revision
  • Episode 47 – November 20: The 15 Minute minute Writing Session
  • Episode 48 – November 28: Sometimes You Have to Look Up
  • Episode 49 – December 4: Holiday Gift Recommendations 2021
  • Episode 50 – December 12: Joyful Academic Writing
  • Episode 51 – December 18: The Non-Academic You
  • Episode 52 – December 25: Tough Conversations with Your Dissertation Advisor

Go to Episodes 30-39

  • Episode 30 – July 25: Easing into Writing
  • Episode 31 – July 31: Writing Habit Tracking
  • Episode 32 – Aug 7: Starting Back to School – You and Your Kids
  • Episode 33 – August 15: Scholarly Responsibility and Mis/information
  • Episode 34 – August 21: Write the First Week of Class
  • Episode 35 – August 29: Cut Prep with Pattern Teaching
  • Episode 36 – September 4; Writing Group Tips
  • Episode 37 – September 11: Brain Dump on a Post It
  • Episode 38 – September 19: Why You Need an Online Research Profile
  • Episode 39 – September 25: Abandoning a Project

Go to Episodes 20-29

  • Episode 20 – May 15: Technical Writing Blocks
  • Episode 21 – May 22: Paralysis Writing Blocks
  • Episode 22 – May 27: Motivational Writing Blocks
  • Episode 23 – June 6: Summer Reset: My Office
  • Episode 24 – June 12: Summer Reset: Digital Teaching Files
  • Episode 25 – June 19: Summer Reset: Books
  • Episode 26 – June 27: Keeping Up with Scholarly Literature Part I: Systems
  • Episode 27 – July 3: Keeping Up with Scholarly Literature Part II: Skim Vs Deep Reading
  • Episode 28 – July 8: (Digital) Desktop Organization for Increased Writing Productivity
  • Episode 29 – July 17: What are Writing Habits?

Go to Episodes 1 – 19

  • Episode 1 – January 4: Writing Reset
  • Episode 2 – January 11: Engage with Your Priority Project
  • Episode 3 – January 18: Get Your Writing Rhythm
  • Episode 4 – January 25: Up Your Writing Game
  • Episode 5 – January 31: Make Writing an Event
  • Episode 6 – February 8: Try Tech Tools
  • Episode 7 – February 15: Don’t Call it a “Writing Session”
  • Episode 8 – February 22: Send an Email
  • Episode 9 – March 1: Do a Little Pleasure Reading
  • Episode 10 – March 8: Dig In
  • Episode 11 – March 14: Try Templates
  • Episode 12 – March 22: Build Your Authority
  • Episode 13 – March 29: Pandemic Moms and Academic Writing (Part I: Writing with Kids)
  • Episode 14 – April 5: Pandemic Moms and Academic Writing (Part 2: Writing without Kids)
  • Episode 15 – April 12: “Smart” Binge Writing 
  • Episode 16 – April 19: Writing a Writing Session Plan
  • Episode 17 – April 26: Get Articles from Your Dissertation
  • Episode 18 – May 1: Grading Time Vs. Writing Time
  • Episode 19 – May 9: Deliberate Writing Breaks

Episodes 40-52

52. Tough Conversations with Your Dissertation Advisor

Posted: Dec. 25, 2021
Length: 20:17


In this episode, Defend & Publish president and executive writing coach Christine Tulley discusses four types of tough conversations doctoral students should have with their dissertation advisors.

Links For Additional Resources and Conversation Framing 

Announcements

 

51. The Non-academic You

Posted: Dec. 18, 2021
Length: 10:23

In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley discusses the importance of connecting your non-academic and academic sides.

Links used in this episode:

  • The 1986 film Club Med is referenced 
  • Check out this post on The Slow Academic about “Hobbies and Leisure”

Join us for our January Writing Boost! Click here for details. 

Don’t forget:

1) Our holiday hrs special! All hours $10 off until December 31. Email christine@defendandpublish.com to get hours or have someone send them to you (we do gift wrapping with extra writing treats and can ship).

2) For a FREE half hour writing consultation, go to Defendandpublish.com: (scroll down to button to sign up) 

50. Joyful Academic Writing Up

Posted: Dec. 12, 2021
Length: 13:30

In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley asks a serious of questions to assist in figuring out what takes the joy out of writing and describes joyful academic writing practices.

Links used in this episode:

Previous podcast episodes referenced in this podcast:

Join us for our January Writing Boost! Click here for details. 

Don’t forget

1) Our holiday hrs special! All hours $10 off until December 31. Email christine@defendandpublish.com to get hours or have someone send them to you (we do gift wrapping with extra writing treats and can ship).

2) For a FREE half hour writing consultation, go to Defendandpublish.com: (scroll down to button to sign up) 

49. Holiday Gift Recommendations 2021

Posted: Dec. 4, 2021
Length: 14:58

In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley offers 10 suggestions for academic writing-themed gifts.

Links used in this episode:

Don’t forget

1) Our holiday hrs special! All hours $10 off until December 31. Email christine@defendandpublish.com to get hours or have someone send them to you (we do gift wrapping with extra writing treats and can ship).

2) For a FREE half hour writing consultation, go to Defendandpublish.com: (scroll down to button to sign up) 

48. Sometimes You Have to Look Up

Posted: Nov. 28, 2021
Length: 11:02

In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulleydescribes how stopping to look up is useful for addressing screen fatigue but also seeing the big picture.

  • For a FREE half hour writing consultation, go to Defendandpublish.com: (scroll down to button to sign up) 

47. The 15 Minute Writing Session

Posted: Nov. 20, 2021
Length: 15:30

In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulleydescribes how using 15-minute scraps of “time confetti” strategically can generate a little more writing time during a busy season.

    46. Using Asana to Manage a Big Revision

    Posted: Nov. 13, 2021
    Length: 18:01

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley describes how she tried Asana, a project management tool, to organize a three sets of feedback for a big revision.

    Websites/references used in this episode:

    45. Modeling Writing for Your Graduate Students

    Posted: Nov. 6, 2021
    Length: 13:38

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes strategies for showing graduate students how to write outside of classes. She recommends 1) showing the labor of academic writing and 2) writing with graduate students when possible. 

    Websites/references used in this episode:

    Opportunities Discussed:

    • For a FREE half hour writing consultation, go to Defendandpublish.com: (scroll down to button to sign up) 

    44. How to Address a Revise and Resubmit

    Posted: Oct. 30, 2021
    Length: 13:07

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley explains how to go about approaching a revise and resubmit decision from an editor. She describes how to sort reviewer’s feedback and systematically revise.

    Opportunities Discussed:

    • For a FREE half hour writing consultation, go to Defendandpublish.com: (scroll down to button to sign up) 

    43. Five Steps for Effective Writing and Research Collaborations

    Posted: Oct. 22, 2021
    Length: 12:21

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley offers tips for setting up writing and research collaborations that troubleshoot problems before they start and keep writing on track to completion.

    Article Discussed: 

    Opportunities Discussed:

    42. Year 2 is a Make or Break Year

    Posted: Oct. 17, 2021
    Length: 9:12

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley explains why faculty should focus on scholarship in Year 2 of a tenure track position and not repeat the learning curve of Year 1.

    Article Discussed:

    Opportunities Discussed:

    41. Do You Need a Writing Coach?

    Posted: Oct. 9, 2021
    Length: 10:55

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley explains how and why a writing coach might help you move forward with your writing more quickly.

    Opportunities Discussed:

    40. Post Your Thesis on the Wall

    Posted: Oct. 2, 2021
    Length: 11:19

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley presents a simple strategy of making your thesis/major argument front and center at all time.

    Strategies Discussed:

    Episodes 30-39

    Episode 39 –Abandoning a Project

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Sept. 25, 2021
    Length: 12:45

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley walks through the reasons why researchers might choose to abandon a writing project.

    Suggested resource links:

    Episode 38 –Why You Need an Online Research Profile

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Sept. 19, 2021
    Length: 16:03

    In this episode, Defend & Publish President and Executive Writing Coach Christine Tulley walks through the benefits of having multiple research profiles and the different purposes these serve.

    Links used in this episode:

    Episode 37 -Brain Dump on a Post It

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Sept. 11, 2021
    Length: 17:26

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes tips getting multiple projects out of your head and into categories.

    Links used in this episode:

    Episode 36 – Writing Group Tips

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Sept. 4, 2021
    Length: 9:14

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes tips for starting (or attending) a writing group in the new academic year.

    Links used in this episode:

      • Making Writing Groups Work by Travis Grady, Nov. 10, 2015
      • Lots of writing group resources here:
      • Not the way the group I described in the episode runs, but good strategies for other types of groups, click here

    Episode 35 – Writing Group Tips

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Aug. 29, 2021
    Length: 10:33

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes why tracking writing habits increases scholarly productivity and mentions several print and digital tools to habit track.

    Links used in this episode:

    Episode 34 – Write the First Week of Class

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Aug. 21, 2021
    Length: 12:24

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes why starting writing sessions the first week of class is useful for establishing a writing habit from the start of the semester.

    Links used in this episode:

    Episode 33 – Scholarly Responsibility and Misinformation

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Aug. 15, 2021
    Length: 9:15

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes three ways scholars can avoid contributing to misinformation.

    Links used in this episode:

    Episode 32 – Starting Back to School – You and Your Kids

    Video Podcast

    Posted: Aug. 7, 2021
    Length: 14:25

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes time management strategies for managing a smooth return to start the semester while addressing the back to school challenges for children.

    Suggested follow up links:

    Episode 31 – Writing Habit Tracking

    Video Podcast

    Posted: July 31, 2021
    Length: 16:38

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes why tracking writing habits increases scholarly productivity and mentions several print and digital tools to habit track.

    Links used in this episode:

    Print Tools

    Digital Tools

    Episode 30 – Easing into Writing


    Video Podcast

    Posted: July 25, 2021
    Length: 14:08

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes strategies for transitioning into writing tasks from other tasks such as teaching or childcare.

    Links used in this episode:

    Episodes 20-29

    Episode 29. What are Writing Habits


    Posted: July 17, 2021
    Length: 11:05
    YouTube Video

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes the four types of “habits” that make up “writing habits” and argues that each should be considered when developing an academic writing system.

    To see slides used during the podcast, click here.

    LINKS

     

    Episode 28. (Digital) Desktop Organization for Increased Writing Productivity

    Posted: July 8, 2021
    Length: 16:35
    YouTube Video

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to use Fences to carve up spaces to store current projects being worked on as well as a project management system.  

    To see slides used during the podcast, click here.

    LINKS

     

    Episode 27. Keeping Up with Scholarly Literature Part II: Skim Vs Deep Reading

    Posted: July 3, 2021
    Length: 17:18
    YouTube Video

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to use Scholarcy to skim read and a system for doing “deep reading” of books and articles.

    To see slides used during the podcast, click here.

    Links:

     

    Episode 26. Keeping Up with Scholarly Literature Part I: Systems

    Posted: June 27, 2021
    Length: 17:19
    YouTube Video

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for setting up regular systems for reading the latest issues of scholarly journals, searching databases, and immediately “storing” the information from reading in a writing project.

    To see slides used during the podcast, click here.

    Links: Episode 9: Do a Little Pleasure Reading

    Episode 25: Summer Reset: Books


    Posted: June 19, 2021
    Length: 15:50
    YouTube Video

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for sorting through physical academic books in order to increase productivity.

    Links:

    Episode 24: Summer Reset: Digital Teaching Files


    Posted: June 12, 2021
    Length: 15:45
    YouTube Video

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for resetting and cleaning up teaching file folders stored on a computer.

     LINKS:

    Episode 23: Summer Reset: My Office


    Posted: June 6, 2021
    Length: 12:46
    YouTube Video

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for cleaning up and reorganizing an office after a Covid absence in order to increase productivity for a return to on campus teaching in the fall. She references: “Designing the Future Faculty Office and “Seven Tips for Creating a Home Workspace”

    Episode 22: Motivational  Writing Blocks


    Posted: May 27, 2021
    Length: 15:05
    YouTube Recording

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for addressing motivational writing blocks, i.e. situations where academic writers avoid writing or just don’t want to write. She references: Write No Matter What!  How to Avoid Overprepping for Classes (to make more time for writing; and Inkpad

    Episode 21: Paralysis Writing Blocks


    Posted: May 20, 2021
    Length: 15:01
    YouTube Recording

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for addressing paralysis writing blocks, i.e. situations where academic writers find themselves unable to write. She references: Overcoming Writing Paralysis; Writing Paralysis;  Episode 5 Make Writing an Event; and Inkpad 

    Episode 20: Technical Writing Blocks

    Posted: May 15 2021
    Length: 11:33
    YouTube Recording

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for addressing technical writing blocks, i.e. situations where academic writers are stuck because they don’t know how to solve a particular writing problem (i.e. how to determine what to include in a literature review). She references: How to Write a Journal Article in 12 Weeks (she also has resources at this link); How Scholars Write; and Air, Light, Time, and Space (she also has resources, including a link to this book

     

    Episodes 1-19

    Episode 19: Deliberate Writing Breaks

    Posted: May 9, 2021
    Length: 8:54

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for preparing for a deliberate break from writing (a vacation, a long weekend, a conference, etc.) in order to return to writing sessions ready to write. She references the writing project management chart described in Inside Higher Education.

    Episode 18: Grading Time Vs. Writing Time

    Posted: May 1, 2021
    Length: 11:55

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley offers strategies for balancing grading filled weeks with writing progress. She references a signal verbs website

    Episode 17: Get Articles from Your Dissertation

    Posted: April 24, 2021
    Length: 9:44

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes a process to carve up a dissertation or failed book project into several articles. The two articles that came out of this process (mentioned in the essay) are “WHat are Undergraduate Preservice Teachers Taught about the Teaching of Writing?and “A Course No One Wants to Teach.”

    Links to screenshots of the process discussed in this podcast are provided below:

    Episode 16: Writing a Writing Session to Plan

    Posted: April 19, 2021
    Length: 15:23

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends using a scheduled writing session to review deadlines, plan writing sessions, and look at forward events requiring writing. She references the Rachel Hollis Start Today priority planner she uses (Target no longer carries these, but there are plenty on Ebay).

    She also references websites that review goal setting planners:

    Episode 15: “Smart” Binge Writing

    Posted: April 10, 2021
    Length: 11:33

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends strategies to get the most writing accomplished in long writing sessions (i.e.) binges. She references the pomodoro technique and playlists on Spotify, including music to get motivated for writing (Academic Writing Pregame 3 and Academic Writing Pregame 4) and writing music (Writing Session 1).

    Episode 14: Pandemic Moms and Academic Writing (Part 2: Writing without Kids)

    Posted: April 3, 2021
    Length: 11:38

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends four strategies for completing academic writing projects in those moments when children are not present. She references “Resetting Your Research Agenda” from Inside HIgher Education and upcoming webinars at Defend & Publish. She encourages academic parents to share tips for writing with children at christine@defenandpublish.com

    Episode 13: Pandemic Moms and Academic Writing (Part I: Writing with Kids)

    Posted: March 26, 2021
    Length: 11:29

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends tools she uses to get some writing done with children at home. All of these tools are referenced: KiwiCrates Doodle Crates (see all types of crates for all ages here), Glitzy Chemistry Set, DIY portable playsets, and Dollar Tree watercolor palettes, Andrea Pippens line at Five Below. She encourages academic parents to share tips for writing with children at christine@defenandpublish.com.

    Episode 12: Build Your Authority

    Posted: March 19, 2021
    Length: 11:17

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends four strategies to write about your research and build your authority on your topic at the same time. She references building a personal website like this one (https://christinetulley.wordpress.com/) and setting up a Google Scholar profile (see this link for tips: https://libguides.reading.ac.uk/boost/google-scholar-profile) among other strategies. She also references the free webinars Defend&Publish is offering this spring (sign up here: https://www.defendandpublish.com/webinars/)

    Episode 11: Try Templates

    Posted: March 14, 2021
    Length: 7:54

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends using websites that offer academic writing templates to save time and get ideas and structure. She shows two template examples: the Academic Writing Toolkit and a template from Raul Pacheco-Vega.

    NOTE: Academic Toolkit is hosted on Wix which has experienced outages this weekend. Templates in the video are posted here: Article design canvas and Research framing brainstorm.

    Episode 10: Dig In

    Posted: March 8, 2021
    Length: 11:54

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley recommends using the beginning of March as a time to “dig in” versus “giving up” because it seems like the end of the semester. She references a strategy in Joli Jensen’s Write No Matter What! and a technique advocated by Chris Denecker in Digital Heuristics: By Chance and By Choice.

    Episode 9: Do a Little Pleasure Reading

    Posted: March 1, 2021
    Length: 11:09

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley advocates spending 1-2 writing sessions a month on “interactive” reading in your discipline. Writing can be used as a tool to understand both new content and as draftwork for a writing project.

    Prelights, a preprints organization, is mentioned as an example of how scientists might write about new research .

    Episode 8: Send an Email

    Posted: February 22, 2021
    Length: 11:09

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley explains how three types of emails can be used to move writing forward:

    1. creating content in the body of an email that can then be transferred to a writing document
    2. clarifying thinking and ideas
    3. getting a response from a real-life audience with feedback that can then be used for writing.

    For more tips to remember as you email, check out “What’s Holding you Back?” by Natalie Lundsteen (Aug. 3, 2020) from Inside Higher Education.

    Episode 7: Don’t Call it a “Writing Session”

    Posted: February 15, 2021
    Length: 11:54

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, Defend & Publish senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes three strategies for changing your approach to writing sessions including leaving a document up onscreen with short burst checkpoints, multitasking writing, and using Inkpad App https://www.inkpadnotepad.com to audio compose notes. Inkpad is a free app that can share notes to email and translates notes to text. These notes can be copied and pasted into documents. Two images of Christine’s Inkpad App are shown in Bonus Material. In addition, the book How Writing Faculty Write (2018) is referenced. See specific interviews with Chris Anson and Danielle DeVoss for more details on how to get writing done while leaving writing up on screen.

    Episode 6: Try Tech Tools

    Posted: February 8, 2021
    Length: 10:59

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, Defend & Publish senior writing coach Christine Tulley talks about three cool tech tools every academic writer needs in their digital writing toolbox

    To see slides used during the podcast, click here.

    Here is the list of tech tools profiled

    1. University of Manchester Academic Phrasebank
    2. Writer’s Diet
    3. Scholarcy

    Episode 5: Make Writing an Event

    Posted: January 31, 2021
    Length: 10:03

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to make preparing for writing sessions more pleasurable in order to look forward to sitting down to write. The episode “Writing the Discipline, Writing Ourselves” on Rhetoricity is referenced. Bonus Spotify playlists Academic Writing Pregame I and Academic Writing Pregame 2 are referenced.

    Episode 4: Up Your Writing Game

    Posted: January 25, 2021
    Length: 12:55

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to 1) extend high mental energy from a focus writing session into remaining writing sessions and 2) how to “play with paragraphs”

    This episode has bonus content – a handout on how to use Patrica Goodsen’s paragraphing formula from Becoming an Academic Writer. Models are provided.

    Episode 3: Get Your Writing Rhythm

    Posted: January 18, 2021
    Length: 19:48

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to develop a writing rhythm by matching tasks to the types of mental time available in 8-10 hours of writing time per week. The Twitter discussion #whatfacultywritinglookslike is referenced.

    Episode 2: Engaging with Your Priority Project

    Posted: January 11, 2021
    Length: 6:36

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley describes how to categorize tasks for a priority writing project over six weeks.

    Links to referenced material

    Episode 1: Writing Reset

    Posted: January 4, 2021
    Length: 12:12

    Podcast | YouTube

    In this episode, senior writing coach Christine Tulley walks through a series of steps to reset academic writing and project management in 2021.

    Links to referenced material

    • An interview about Christine’s pre-pandemic writing habits, click here
    • Information on how to “take stock” of all of your writing projects, click here

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