Emerita Professor Dannelle Stevens has published her fifth book, Write More, Publish More, Stress Less! Stevens, who retired in 2016, has worked at PSU since 1994 in the Center for Academic Excellence and in the Curriculum and Instruction (CI) Department. She was a program coordinator for the CI master’s degree, the doctoral program, and the Bilingual Teacher Pathway program and served as interim CI chair. Stevens is a Fulbright and a Carnegie scholar. Her best-selling book, Intro to Rubrics, has sold over 40,000 copies and is translated into Chinese and Japanese.
About the book
In Write More, Publish More, Stress Less!, Dannelle D. Stevens offers five key principles that will bolster your knowledge of academic writing, enable you to develop a manageable, sustainable, and even enjoyable writing practice, and, in the process, effectively increase your publication output and promote your academic career.
A successful and productive book and journal article author, writing coach, and creator of a nationally recognized, cross-disciplinary faculty writing program, with a long career as a faculty member and experience as a department chair, Stevens offers a unique combination of motivation, reflective practices, analytical tools, templates, and advice to set you on the path to being a productive and creative writer.
Drawing on her experience as a writer and on her extensive research into the psychology of writing and the craft of scholarly writing, Stevens starts from the premise that most faculty have never been taught to write and that writers, both experienced and novice, frequently experience anxiety and self-doubt that erode confidence. She begins by guiding readers to understand themselves as writers and discover what has impeded or stimulated them in the past to establish positive new attitudes and sustainable habits.
Stevens provides strategies for setting doable goals and organizing a more productive writing life and demonstrates the benefits of writing groups, including offering a variety of ways in which you can experiment with collaborative practice. In addition, she offers a series of reflections, exercises, and activities to spark your writing fluency and creativity.
Whether you are developing journal articles, book chapters, book proposals, book reviews, or conference proposals, this book will help you demystify the hidden structures and common patterns in academic writing and help you match your manuscript to the language, structures, and conventions of your discipline—be it in the sciences, social sciences, or humanities.
Most importantly, believing that connecting your passions with your work is essential to stimulating your ideas and enthusiasm. This guide offers you the knowledge and skills to write more.
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