Interested in improving your writing productivity? Sign up to meet with other faculty in the Clemson Faculty Book Club over Zoom this spring. This group will be reading a chapter from The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure- Without Losing Your Soul by Kerry Anne Rockquemore and Tracy Lazzloffy. Chapter 6 ‘Healthy Pathways to Publication’ (pg. 89-104) deals with the motivation for setting up a daily writing habit and gives specific tips for implementing this. At the meeting, we will discuss changes we want to make, and our next steps operationalize those changes. While the book is aimed at early career tenure-track faculty, it will be of interest to any faculty member who wants to increase their scholarship production.
Event Details:
- RSVP by January 31st. Sessions will be held February 24th from 12-1 in person and February 27th from 12-1 pm via zoom. Click here to register.
- Each Book club session will be limited to 15 participants each, so register early.
- Participants will receive a copy of the chapter by February 7th.
- Book club meeting format: At the beginning of the meeting, we will remind all participants of the general expectations (The leader will ask each of you to introduce yourselves to the group (name and academic discipline) and then go over our three faculty book club expectations for participants: (1) Agree to disagree as there is no one way to experience a book; (2) Focus on the task at hand and do not multitask; (3) Share the floor with others. Next, everyone will highlight a sentence that they found particularly compelling, a topic that resonated with their experience, or something they would like to know more about through the group discussion. After a general discussion, faculty will be asked to reflect what changes they can to make and how they will operationalize those changes.
In addition to reading the book, faculty are invited to login into the National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development (NCFDD) to watch a video on setting up a writing habit (Core Curriculum SKILL #3: How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice). NCFDD was founded by the author of this book (Kerry Anne Rockquemore) and access to the platform is provided to Clemson faculty by the Clemson Office of Faculty Affairs
