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1 | ACS Summer '23 Writing Accountability Groups (WAG) Program | ||||
2 | Name, Department (Campus) | Project Describe your summer writing project(s). | Goal Where do you want to be at the end of July? Write in the affirmative, "I will ___." | Plan When & under what conditions will you write to meet your goal? (For instance, how often, what time of day, how long at a time, where?) | |
3 | Nancy Chick, Faculty Development & English (Rollins) | I'm working on two co-authored books. The SoTL Guide is about 3/4 drafted (but a very rough 3/4), and the unnamed book about a mid-career faculty program is mapped out but the drafting has just begun. I need to spend lots of butt-in-seat writing time this summer! | I will be finished with a full, less-rough draft of the first book and a full draft of my sections in the second book. | I will write in my office (or at my living room table) for 2 hours in the early morning, 3 days a week (no weekends). I will occasionally go to a coffee house. One of my co-authors and I also have regular co-writing dates via Zoom, so we start and stop together reporting our goals and what we accomplished -- very much like a WAG. Most importantly, I will put these plans in my schedule! | |
4 | Kathy Wiegand, Psychology (Spelman) | I'm working on an archival study of working mothers. | I will have a full draft of a journal article and plan for which journal I will submit to. | I will write in my office or at our dining room table for 1.5 hours three times a week in the early morning (M, W, F) and read and take notes/code material twice a week (M, W) in the afternoon for 1.5 hours at the library. | |
5 | Susan Libby, Art History (Rollins) | I plan to write an introduction to a book-length project on colonialism in an 18th-century French encyclopedia. | I will write a 15-20 page document, as described under “Projects.” | I will work on this project at home from about 11:00-3:00, at least 4 days a week, ideally 5. | |
6 | Laura Franey, English/Comm Studies (Millsaps) | I am drafting an article on the Netflix documentary, The Keepers (2017), focusing on the portrayal of body & memory and of women religious (nuns). I wrote a long early version last year when I was on sabbatical, but I have much revision to do! | I will finish a complete draft of the article. It can be in need of polishing, stylistically, but it needs to be complete in ideas, arguments, and evidence. | I will work on this project 5 days a week for 7-9 hours per day. This will include the 1 hour weekly small-group WAG meetings. | |
7 | Myra Monreal, Env Studies & Eng (Rollins & UF) | I'm would like to submit a paper to the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Ed on an EcoUrban Resource project I am working on with the Nature Conservancy and work on a paper about harnessing e-scooter big data by local governments. | For the EcoUrban resource paper, I will have the outline, project background and objectives, and assessment complete by the end of July. For the e-scooter paper, I will complete the lit review, methdology, and have an approved IRB survey. | I will write at home from approx 10-12, at least 3 days a week. During this time period, I will NOT check e-mails! | |
8 | Yang Gao, Sociology, Furman | I am revising an old article about the Chinese consumption of American television shows. | I will have a decent draft by June. The goal is to submit the article by (preferably mid) July. | ||
9 | Jon Heggestad, Digital Studies (Davidson) | I am putting together a new article that looks to science fiction novels and the strategies that queer folks have developed to navigate online spaces. | I will have an article ready to submit by the end of July. | I plan to write 3 days a week for 3-4-hour chunks of time, at home or at a coffeeshop, early in the day. | |
10 | Juan Guevara Pinto, Psychology, Rollins College | I want to draft a manuscript for publication at the Journal of Applied Research in Memory (JARMAC). The data is fully collected, I just need to write the manuscript and share it with my collaborator for revisions. | I would like to have a full draft of the manuscript so I can share it with my collaborator for revisions prior to submission. | I plan to write from home, in a quiet space. Possibly write 3 days per week, preferably in the mornings (8-11am). | |
11 | Melissa Vise, History, Washington and Lee | article on medieval legal concepts of persona; book manuscript on the regulation of speech in medieval Italy | I will finish editorial edits to article; complete edits to ch. 2,5,6, and intro in response to reviewers for book manuscript; refine argumentations about republican law in ch. 4 | In June: 1.5 hours/day MWF in the office, 1 hour/day MWF at home during naptime, 2 hours/day TR at home during naptime; In July: 9-1, 5 days/week in the study, excepting holidays | |
12 | Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (they/them), Classics Department, Davidson College | I will be working on two publications, so that I can spend the academic year on my book manuscript. The first is a chapter for an edited volume about violence against female war captives in 4th c Greece. The second is an article about an enslaved woman in a Roman comic play, which I intend to submit to a journal at the end of the summer. | I will finish a chapter publication for an edited volume (June), and will have a full draft of an article for a journal (July). | In June I plan to write 9am–12pm M–F in my local coffee shop. In July I will be taking part in an all-day workshop, so I will commute into Boston early to work for 1 hour from 8:30–9:30am M–F, location tbd. I commit to 'paying myself first' (with research) so to speak. | |
13 | Jana Mathews, English, Rollins College | I am working on a journal article on a 19th-century scrapbook that contains medieval manuscript fragments. | I want this beast out the door. | I plan to write from my office 4 days per week in the morning (9-12). Historically, I haven't been fabulous at preserving a healthy work-life balance and my goal is to NOT work in the evenings or weekends. | |
14 | Jethro Hernandez Berrones, HIstory, Southwestern University | Beginning to wrap up a book project on the history of homeopathy in Mexico. Outlining a book chapter on the relationship between heterodox religious groups and homeopathy. | I will have full rough draft of the entire book. I will have an outline with sources for the chapter. | I will write for eight hours a day, that is a regular business day. I will work for chuncks of 50 min with a 10 min break. I may have some disruptions throughout since I am in Mexico staying with family. Luckily they understand that I have writing committments and that after I am done writing I am all for them. | |
15 | Cody Crosby, Physics, Southwestern Universtiy | I am working on an article describing our development of an open-source extruder for 3D bioprinting applications and a pedagogical article on developing a biomaterial-based chemistry teaching laboratory. | By August 1st, I will have submitted the bioprinting article to HardwareX and have finished a complete draft of the pedagogical article. | I will work for at least 2 hours a day (in total) across the two projects. I need to supervise my four research students which will prevent me from always being able to block time throughout the day. I will begin blocking time in the middle of July (when the students leave for the summer). | |
16 | Sara Massey, Chemistry, Southwestern University | I am completing a grant application for the Cottrell Scholar Award (due July 1) and drafting a manuscript on the effect of iron stress on light-harvesting and the presence of a unique fluorescence state in photosynthetic diatoms | I will submit the Cottrell Scholar Award application by July 1. I will have figures completed and a complete manuscript draft by the end of July. | I plan to write from my office for at least 3 hours 5 days/week: 9:30-11am and 1:00-2:30pm. I'll be balancing this with mentoring 2 research students who are collecting data. | |
17 | Melissa Johnson, Anthropology, Race & Ethnicity Studies/ Env Studies, Southwestern Univ | Book proposal and draft of one chapter---project: late 1700s-early 1800s Belize/Mosquito shore, emergence of racial categories/ gender in relation to socioecology; respond to friends reviews of article on racialization and a jaguar hunting camp in 1960s Belize | Proposal fleshed out. Chapter outline and more completed. Article on hunting camp submitted | Figuring this out....I am teaching right now; so during days that I teach --one hour that day....but also what counts as "writing "--so maybe more | |
18 | Allison Miller, Southwestern University, Department of Art History | I want to draft a book chapter on rhetorical strategies in early Chinese narrative art. | I will have the chapter drafted and revised by the end of July. | I will work on the chapter daily (M-F) from roughly 8 am-12:30 pm & 1 pm-3/4 pm. | |
19 | Angie Dewberry, Registrar, Davidson College | Write and submit an article in Academic Advising Today regarding the connections between advising and the Registrar's Office | With Rebecca, we will have created a rough draft of the article by the end of July. We would revise in August to submit by the Sept. 1st deadline. | 2-3 times a week for about an hour - I'll already be in the office for my 40 hrs of work/week, so just need to schedule this time | |
20 | Bellee Jones-Pierce, English Department, Centenary College (she/her--say "Bellee" like believe without the v.) | PROJECT 1: Polish and submit a journal article (work in citations/references to a new piece of scholarship that's come out since the piece was drafted; conform to house style; proof and submit); PROJECT 2: research and begin drafting a book chapter on "Health and Solitude" (working bibliography; words on page). Because my main goal is to put words on paper during this two-month span and I have a lot of irons in the fire, I will also likely work on PROJECT 3: a co-authored chapter on Macbeth for an edited collection on early modern neurodivergence. | PROJECT 1: I will submit this albatross of an article. Out the door. Way before the end of July! PROJECT 2: I will have a good handle on my bibliography and a very rough working draft of the chapter. PROJECT 3: I will write close-reading portions, suss out nationalism section, and confer with my co-author regarding an outline. LATE JUNE UPDATE: My past-self was incredibly optimistic and did not make room for emergent occasions. I am...trying. | In the month of June, I will write for two hours each weekday morning, usually in my office. In the afternoons/evenings, I will spend one-to-two hours reading and/or revising and making notes to either (a) jumpstart my writing the following day or (b) make headway on another project that requires more reading than writing. Under no circumstances will I spend the two morning hours reading rather instead of writing. On the days my WAG meets, I will add time rather than taking time away from the morning or evening sessions. At the end of June (June 24-27), I will go on a writing retreat with a colleague from Luther College. I will be traveling on June 23, so I won't write/research that day. June 24-27 will be heavy, heavy writing days. On June 28 I will be traveling (and meeting with my WAG), and I'll probably take June 29 off. I will engage in some reflection and assessment on June 30 . On July 3, I will either resume or adjust my previous schedule. Well. A huge power outage followed by a bout of Covid derailed my plans, and my son is having surgery next week, so I won't have childcare for the remainder of the WAG period. I still plan to write for two hours per weekday morning, but I will be writing at home and reflecting on my hubris. | |
21 | Rebecca Barrow, Assistant Registrar, Davidson College | Write an article for Academic Advising Today on the connections between advising and the Registrar's Office | I will have drafted my portion so that Angie and I can spend the month of August combining and editing the article for the September 1 deadline. | Division of work will happen in July and weekly writing will begin for me in July and happen daily as it fits into my work day. | |
22 | Erika Berroth, German Program in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Southwestern University | My Mulberry Tree project is new research in Plant Humanities. I envision a reserach article that brings together my previsous research on representations of Mulberry trees in the literature of migration (East-Central Europe/former Jugoslavia to Germany) and the socio-economic stories surrounding the introduction of Mulberry trees into a scheme of starting silk production in Germany -- with the help of Huguenots, the French refugees seeking asylum in Berlin at the time. | I will have an outline of a research article with some segments ready for submission, others ready for revsions. | I will schedule three writing days per week - alternating with field and library reserach. During the research time in Germany, this schedule will be adjusted. On the three writing days, I will work in 2 hour blocks, alternating between different components. | |
23 | Courtney Hatch, Department of Chemistry, Hendrix College | My summer project is to write a research article from results of an NSF grant studying the chemistry and climate effects of atmospheric aerosols | I would like to have a complete draft ready to send off to co-authors by the end of the summer | I will write in the mornings three times each week and during my weekly WAG meetings in my office | |
24 | Matt Cohen, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Sciences, Furman University | I am working on a journal article that will combine/synthesize a few past student projects on the topic of climate action planning in US cities, focusing on a case study of Greenville, SC | I will submit a manuscript for peer review | I will write in the mornings from my office a couple of days a week and from home in the afternoons a couple of days per week | |
25 | Jorge Lizarzaburu, Department of Philosophy, Southwestern University | I am working on two articles. One considers the history of socialist practices before the philosophical/political movement was articulated by European thinkers in the 19th century. The second article is an examination of the concept of human nature in light of a new evolutionary framework called the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. | I will finish one of the two articles. | Write two hours every day. | |
26 | Susanna Weygandt, Russian Studies and Humanities, Sewanee | creating presentation about my soon to be published article for conference at Duke so that my presentation is dynamic, interesting, and I'm not just reading my article. Preparing grant proposal for NEH, Getty, and grant in North Carolina. Editing my scholar website to highlight more my scholarship in East European and Russian Post-Soviet studies. Some sprucing up of other professional documents. | I will have all revisions to two articles done so that they are out of my hands (they are just about that way). I will have given a strong presentation at Duke. The professional documents that I want to revise will be revised and also my scholar website. By then, I will have heard back from U of Wisconsin Press with final revisions to my book manuscript. I'm glad I already have a letter of intent from that press to publish my book. Any revisions from U of Wisconsin I expect to complete at the end of July and in August. | I'm writing every morning from 9 am to noon. Then household chores. Then more writing in the afternoon if other urgent work doesn't come up. I will be traveling somewhat often this summer, so quiet time will be used to write when I get quiet time. I'm working on the other writing projects that I've described here so that they will be complete by the time I hear back from University of Wisconsin Press with final revisions to my book manuscript. At that point I can launch into the final revisions. Lots of writing should be done by the end of August, then. | |
27 | Christal Schoen, Mathematics, Centenary | I will write an article about active learning with technology in the Calculus II classroom. Data has been collected and was written about in my dissertation. I need to update my literature review and focus/refine my writing. | I will be ready to submit my article at the end of July. | I will write for two hours per day, three days a week, early in the morning. I will write at my computer desk at home. I will read for two hours per day, twice a week, early in the morning. These work requirements will be my minimum. Since I am packing my apartment and moving to a new one, the days I work may change from week-to-week. | |
28 | Mengying Liu, Physics and Engineering, Washington and Lee University | I am revising one proposal that is due June 30, and write another new proposal from scratch which is due in July | I will submit two proposals at the end of july | I will work 5.5 days per week, and write in the morning and night for at least 2 hours per day. In the meantime read one paper every work day. These are the minimum requirement. The two proposal will be writing simutanously | |
29 | Kristen Brown Golden, Department of Philosophy, Millsaps College | I have two very different areas of research. One is continental philosophy with a Nietzsche specialty, and the other is philosophy of race with an approach through neuroscience. It's been a while since I've written on the first; and I recently completed a major project on the second It's tricky to combine the two although I've combined Freud (continental phil) with the philosphy of race and neuroscience. I'm at a crossroads, doing a lot of reading to determine the topic of my next work. My project is to determine the new topic, outline my first paper and write an early version. | I will have completed a draft of the new article by the end of July. | This is the second time in my multiple-decade career to be at a major cross-roads for determining what direction to take the next stage of my research. I will spend no more than two weeks researching/deciding upon my next topic. The weeks after, I'll outline/write and read. I'll do this weekdays M-F with a minimum of 2 hours every morning about 8:30-10:30 and one hour in the afternoon. Exception: at family reunion June 20-26 I'll adjust to 1-hour minimum per day). But those are minimums. A typical day: 5 hours with most of those in the morning at my home. | |
30 | Ellen Barnett, Education, Trinity University | Draft manuscript: Comparison of Students Geoscience Field Experiences in Virtual Reality and in Real Life | A rough draft of the rationale and methods exists. By the end of July, I will complete data analsysis and draft findings. | I willl write (analyze data) for one hour, five days a week. I will write in the morning in my comfy chair while my husband cares for our son or before they wake. Once a week, on a day my schedule allows, I will go to a coffee shop, enjoy an iced latte and write for 1 to 2 hours. | |
31 | Molly Brookfield, The University of the South (Sewanee) | Working on revising a book manuscript for submission to press | I would like to have completed revisions on at least one chapter by the end of the summer | I will write/edit in the morning everyday for 1-2 hours. Afternoons will be reserved for reading over sections I've worked on previously or doing outside reading/research I need to fill in any gaps | |
32 | David Wood, Modern Languages, Millsaps | I am revising chapter two of a first draft of a book I completed last December. Second, I am translating into Spanish part of chapter one for a conference presentation on July 13. | I will have presented the paper in Spanish (ch.1) and revised chapter two | My best time to write is in the mornings. I plan to write M-F, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, in my home office. Before I write, I prefer to read for an hour or so while I drink a cup of coffee. During writing sessions, I take breaks when necessary, make tea, stretch, walk around a bit. | |
33 | Liz Egan, Creative Writing, Millsaps College | I'm not in the tenure stream (ie my institution does not care about my scholarship), so my project is to restore my *intrinsic* motivation to "practice what I preach" when I teach CRWT to undergrads. The overwhelm of pandemic teaching and a family crisis wiped out all my routines, so my project is to return to a novel manuscript that's been shelved for...gulp...more than three years now (!). I'm hopeful I'll have better job/career satisfaction (and less "imposter syndrome") once my writing routines are back in place. | I will have restored a functional writing routine that can survive the transition from summer to the academic year -- which means this routine needs to include reasonable boundaries around writing time that are sustainable even when students and colleagues knock on my door for *all of the things* | I plan to write 1-2 hours/day, 3 days on, 1 day off. I will use metacogniton to spark my writing sessions by keeping a "warming up" journal (just as John Steinbeck did) that and prepares for the day's writing work and comments on how the project is developing. My "where" will fluctuate as I yo-yo between my home in Mississippi and visiting my parents in Florida, so I will rely on a "writing go-bag" so that I always have everything I need to get my novel project back on track. Finally, my plan is to return to the novel in two stages; I will spend the first ~2 weeks re-writing an outline of the novel and re-telling myself key points in my novel's story from memory; then, I will look at the manusript itself and make an assessment about next steps based on how the writer I am now compares with the writer I was three years ago. While it would be nice to be able to keep some of the 45K words I already have, I'm prepared to start over; it's a passion project anyway, right? Oh, and my excellent therapist is an integral part of this writing plan as well :) | |
34 | Li Kang, Philosophy, Washington and Lee University | (1) Submit a close-to-finish article to a journal by June 15. (2) Submit an encycclopedia article by July 31. (3) Submit a compass article by August 28. All projects are about Chinese Buddhist philosophy. | I will write consistently this summer. I will submit (1) and (2), and finish a rough draft of (3). | I will write at least two hours everyday except for Saturdays. | |
35 | Amber Reed, International Studies, Spelman College | Complete data analysis, writing, and submission of an article on ideas of race and racialization in post-apartheid situation comedies in South Africa. | I will have the data analysis and a rough draft of the article completed. | I will use the pomodoro method and complete 4 pomodoros per day 5 days per week. | |
36 | Victoria Brown, English, Rollins College | (Why is it so hard to wrap text!) Two significant writing projects. (1) Complete, edit and submit magazine article on teaching as a woman of color in Florida's current ploitical climate, and (2) Revise the opening of my novel in progress. This is a long-simmering second book and so much has changed, including whether I even want to stick with this novel or move on to another project. I hope reivising the opening will clarify this conundrum | I will submit article and begin serious ms. revison. In past, my revision attempts have not gone beyond rereading and marking up a physical copy, so more edits than revision. Now I need to take into consideration some early feedback I received from my agent, and consider how this opening might set up a second draft | 3 Pomodoro hrs, 5 mornings per week, in Rollins College library carrell. On childless days, return to ms. each writing day. | |
37 | Andrés Romero, Rollins College-Anthro | Complete edits for scenes for Place chapters of book ms. | By the end of July, I would like to refine about 90 pgs of book ms and condense into shorter scenes and writing. | I’m going to write for 2.5 hours a day via pomodoro method, ideally in the morning. I’m going to try to spend an hour editing and doing other prep work for the next day in the afternoon. | |
38 | Erica Williams, Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College | I have 5 summer writing projects: a book review, a Senegal blog, polishing the first 50 pages of my travel memoir to send to lit agents, submitting my book proposal & 2 sample chapters for my ethnography to interested editors, writing up a short piece on the Brazil study abroad program I directed this summer. | By the end of July, I will have completed and submitted the short pieces on Senegal and Brazil as well as the book review. I will have submitted the first 50 pages of my travel memoir to lit agents and submitted the book proposal and 2 sample chapters to editors. | I would like to write for 2 hours a day (broken up into 30 min chunks), 5 days per week. I will either write in my home office or at a cafe. I will try to schedule some virtual or in-person writing groups with friends/colleagues. | |
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