Publish & Flourish is a highly interactive virtual two-hour workshop in which the ten steps are introduced. It features an open-ended question in chat, eight poll questions, and about a dozen questions from the audience. Participants leave with new tools to apply to grants and manuscripts.

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Publish & Flourish: A Workshop and Writing Retreat is a virtual four-part series. A couple of steps are introduced each day and participants spend the rest of the time applying those steps to a grant or manuscript that they bring to the workshop. This four-part virtual workshop and writing retreat meets for 90 minutes four times over the span of a week or once a week over four weeks.

 

The advantage of the four-part workshop is that participants apply the steps during the workshop itself and, having tried the steps, adopt more of them.

 

The advantage of the four-week version is that participants are invited to write daily and record it in a shared spreadsheet. The shared accountability results in participants writing an average of four times a week for 30 minutes and increasing their productivity by a factor of 2.7.* The four parts of the workshop are described below.

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Part 1 • Write Daily

Only 12% of scholars succeed in writing daily, and they greatly outperform those who don’t. But how do you get started and keep going? Learn how to break out as a writer.

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Part 2 • Organize Around Key or Topic Sentences

Organizing around key or topic sentences is essential to clear writing, but it is not easy until you know the drill. Learn how to organize effectively by writing key sentences.

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Part 3 • Outline after You Write by Making a List of Key Sentences

After drafting your grant or manuscript, check its organization by making a list of key sentences and studying that list for cohesion and logic.

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Part 4 • Seek Informal Feedback before Formal Review

One study found that after peer review, manuscripts improved in 33 of 34 measures. Why not get that kind of serious feedback informally before formal peer review? This session demonstrates how.

 

 

It’s hard to put the finishing touches on a grant or manuscript—and send it off for review—but that’s exactly what scholars must do. Come learn how to polish your grant or manuscript to a fine shine.

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*Gray, T., Madson, L., & Jackson, M. (2018). Publish & Flourish: Helping scholars become better, more prolific writers. To improve the academy: A journal of educational development, 37, 243-256.

https://doi.org/10.1002/tia2.20081

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About Coaching

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Immediately following the workshop, or workshop/writing retreat, participants begin to apply the principles to their scholarly writing. They then have a chance to share their discoveries with colleagues who are overcoming similar hurdles in one-hour coaching sessions with Tara.

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These powerful coaching sessions provide the accountability, structure, and momentum to help the plans of participants become permanent.

 

 

Book Group

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A book group following the workshop allows participants to dive into the model and the studies underlying it. Participants are provided with discussion questions, as well as an opportunity to bring questions for the group. This leads to invigorating discussion. To preview Publish & Flourish, read the introduction to the book.