Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Joli Jensen

Our advisors and mentors, the people who could help us learn how to do academic writing more easily, are also people who might punish us for not knowing how to do it already.

Very few of us are lucky enough to have advisors who honestly share what actually goes into most writing: self-doubt, fear, frustration, avoidance, stalling, redrafting, revising, resubmitting, getting rejected, trying again.

This resonates so much with the world of academia, but also in the industry. For more sharing and transparency, and growth together.