My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor piece gives three tactics for delivering an understandable, memorable, and overall effective Zoom presentation: “Writing to be heard online: Tips for giving effective conference presentations during the pandemic.” Have a question you want me to answer? Contact me!
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#AskDrEditor: Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar
My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor piece outlines a four-step communications plan for authors of scholarly monographs in the humanities: “Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar – Part 2: Strategies to extend your monograph’s reach.” Have a question you want me to answer?Continue reading “#AskDrEditor: Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar”
#AskDrEditor: Doing Anti-Racist Academic Work
My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor piece collects together a series of tweets to share five different strategies that faculty members can use to do their work in an anti-racist way: “Doing anti-racist academic work: How to practice and perform anti-racist research, teaching, and service.” HaveContinue reading “#AskDrEditor: Doing Anti-Racist Academic Work”
#AskDrEditor: Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar
My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor piece outlines a four-step communications plan for authors of scholarly monographs in the humanities: “Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar – Part 2: Strategies to extend your monograph’s reach.” Have a question you want me to answer?Continue reading “#AskDrEditor: Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar”
#AskDrEditor: How to get your humanities research read & cited
My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor piece provides three evidence-backed strategies to get humanities journal articles read and cited: “How to get your humanities research read & cited – Part 1: Strategies to extend your journal article’s reach.” Have a question you want me to answer?Continue reading “#AskDrEditor: How to get your humanities research read & cited”
#AskDrEditor: Your grant budget is a mess!
My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor piece explains three problems that can contribute to a problematic, messy budget in a grant application: “Your grant budget is a mess! How to demonstrate feasibility in your proposal’s budget and justifying some of those out of the norm expenses.”Continue reading “#AskDrEditor: Your grant budget is a mess!”
#AskDrEditor: Three ways to use colour effectively in grant applications
My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is now available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor provides three strategies for choosing clear, legible colours in your next grant app: “Three ways to use colour effectively in grant applications: Ineffective colour can make an otherwise compelling image incomprehensible.” Have a question you want me to answer?Continue reading “#AskDrEditor: Three ways to use colour effectively in grant applications”
#AskDrEditor: How, when and why to use readability formulas to improve your academic writing
My editing advice column, Ask Dr. Editor, is now available through UniversityAffairs.ca. This Ask Dr. Editor column describes how readability formulas work, and the few academic contexts in which readability formulas are helpful and appropriate: “How, when and why to use readability formulas to improve your academic writing There are many tools that measure readabilityContinue reading “#AskDrEditor: How, when and why to use readability formulas to improve your academic writing”