Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks -By Wendy Laura Belcher

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks is the only reference to combine expert guidance with a step-by-step workbook. Each week, readers learn a feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. Every day is mapped out, taking the guesswork and worry out of writing. There are tasks, templates, and reminders. At the end of twelve weeks, graduate students, recent PhDs, postdoctoral fellows, adjunct instructors, junior faculty, and international faculty will feel confident they know that the rules of academic publishing and have the tools they need to succeed.

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Annette Ponnock
Mendelay (Reference Management)

Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data:

  • Automatically generate bibliographies

  • Collaborate easily with other researchers online

  • Easily import papers from other research software

  • Find relevant papers based on what you're reading

  • Access your papers from anywhere online

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Annette Ponnock
Greater Good in Action

This website compiles science-based practices for living a more meaningful life. On here you’ll find exercises and activities to experience more gratitude, compassion, awe, you name it. You can search by the type of experience you’d like to have, difficulty level, or user rating (be careful with these…what’s effective for one person might not be effective for someone else).

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Annette Ponnock
Asana (Project Management System)

There are a lot of project management tools and apps out there but I personally love asana. It allows you to create color-coded projects with tasks and subtasks in each one and then gives you a list of all your overall tasks sorted by due date or project. You can also assign tasks to other people on your team which is a handy feature to keep track of team projects.

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Annette Ponnock
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There are a number of time tracking devices out there. I use Toggl because it is simple and clearly tracks my different projects across all of my devices. Whichever you choose, please choose one and stick with it. Not only does this help you stay on task, tracking your time helps you to better estimate how long projects or tasks will take in the future.

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Bonnie Bakhtiari