Joe Moxley, Professor of English

University of South Floridahttp://joemoxley.org

Find MOMO (Momentum) & Manage Grant WritingProject

Topics

• Develop a File Management Strategy• Manage Revision and Editing• Use Writing Tools

• Document Sharing (Word, SharePoint)

• Use Bibliography Tools • Develop a Research Blog• Create a Writing Community

How Much Time Do You Need?

• 3 months to write a proposal• NIH = 25 ss pages; NSF

15 pages; NEH• Allow 6 months to receive a

decision• Allow 3 months to receive

award (although your university may front you the money).

• Allow for rejection/revision and submission to multiple funding agencies.

Establish Priorities and Act Accordingly

Structuring your time without being tense helps writers find additional time to work and play. If you work with a sense of structured routine, with a present-orientation … with effective organization, and with persistence, you will be more likely to display higher self-esteem, better health, more optimism, and more efficient work habits. Without learning the language of time, you risk depression, psychological distress, anxiety, neuroticism, and physical symptoms of illness.

(Robert Boice)

Write Daily > Benefits of Daily Writing

Bob Boice, 1989 Manuscript pages written or revised per year

Controls

Experimentals I (30 min/day)

Write Daily > Log Your Work

DateHours Worked

Number f Words Written

Class of Writing

Writing/ Research Activities

Feelings about Day's Writing

Goals/ Accomplishments People to Contact Research to Conduct Revising Goals

9/1/00 1 300 3 Writing Good Project goals part 1

9/2/00 1 339 3 Writing Good Project goals part 2

9/3/00 3 371 3 Writing Good Writing goals

9/4/00 3 317 3 Writing Good Using Outline/Tracking feature

9/5/00 1.5 366 2 Writing Good Review of PM Networks article

9/7/00 2 224 3 Revision Good Incorporate cmts to goals

9/8/00 3 224 3 Revision Good Finalize goal

9/9/00 2 319 3 Writing Good Analyze my project

9/10/00 1.9 358 3 Writing Good Discussing Chapter 4

9/11/00 2 269 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.1

9/14/00 1.5 331 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.2 Version 1

9/15/00 2 263 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.2 Version 2

9/16/00 3 311 3 Writing Good Drafted para 4.2 Version 3

9/17/00 2 363 3 Writing Good Addressed Dr. Moxley's cmts

9/18/00 1.5 378 3 Writing Good Attempt at hypotheses

9/19/00 1 191 1 Writing Good Status on good writers

9/20/00 2 535 3 Writing Good Status on good writers cont'

9/21/00 2 394 3 Writing Good Hypothesis analysis

9/22/00 2 353 3 Writing Good Hypothesis analysis

9/23/00 2 449 3 Writing Good Hypothesis analysis

9/26/00 2 308 3 Writing Good Conference abstract

9/28/00 2.5 412 3 Writing Good Methodology analysis

9/29/00 2 260 3 Writing Good Article review

10/1/00 2 335 3 Writing Good Article summary

10/2/00 1.5 421 3 Writing Good First paragraph paraphrase

10/3/00 2 324 3 Rewrite Good Incorp Dr. M's cmts in Conf Abstract

10/5/00 2 377 3 Write Good Drafted para 4.3

10/6/00 1.5 381 3 Write Good Drafted para 4.4

10/7/00 1.5 266 3 Write Good Drafted para 4.5

Inventing > Freewriting

The positive force is the surprise of discovery. Writers are born at the moment they write what they do not expect . . . They are hooked because the act of writing that, in the past, had revealed their ignorance, now reveals that they know more than they had thought they knew.

- Donald Murray.

Inventing > Looping

Freewrite a draft. Re-read the draft and attempt to identify the "center of gravity"--the

place where your content is most original. Identify effective metaphors, images, sentences. Circle the language that you find to be of value.

Begin a second freewrite after rewriting the "center of gravity" at the top of the page. As you draft again, repeat the language you find helpful from the first draft, using these passages as a creative point of departure.

Repeat the "looping" process as necessary.

Inventing > Think Visually

Examples of Maps Using Visuals Clustering/Spider MapsSystems Concept MapsTime Line/Flowchart MapsHierarchy Concept MapsModeling/Theory Maps

Spider Maps

Spider Maps

Systems Maps

Revise Your Work

• Revise Your Work at the Rhetorical Level

Edit Your Work

• Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams.

• Editing Strategies

Manage Revision and Editing

1. Don’t accept everything you hear. Ignore the cranks. Like bad drivers, there are too many cranks for you to police.

2. Be your own worst critic. No one will take your work as seriously as you do.

3. Don’t try to critique your work at the last minute.

Trying Again

If and when you submit a second time, send a revised proposal and indicate that you took their advice, i.e.: “It was so rewarding to hear the panel appreciated this, and it was helpful to hear they were concerned about X, so we have …”

Understanding Writing>Playing the Believing Game

DoubtingBelieving

Use Writing Tools Wisely

• Use software tools to facilitate collaboration:

• MSFT Tutorial | BU Tutorial | Tools for Writers• SharePoint• Blogs

• http://www.lessig.org/blog/• http://markbernstein.org/• PhDweblogs.net

• Wikis: TeachingWiki, WritingWiki

Develop a Research Blog

• http://markbernstein.org/• PhDweblogs.net • http://www.lessig.org/blog/

Create a Writing Community

•Meet regularly (monthly, semi-monthly):

•Face-to-face•Online

•Blogging community.