Academic Woman Amplified

Academic years ebb and flow; some parts of a semester are much busier than others. As your semester ramps up, your writing might need to take a backseat, but make sure you have a plan to bring it back to the center. Semesters have pretty predictable pattern. In a traditional North American semester system of 15 weeks, things start coming to a head around week 10. You may notice any of the following:   You have more than one assignment waiting for grading. You’re officially “backlogged.” There are so many meetings and reports due. You consider pushing the reports until the end of the semester, after grades are in, which means they’ll be late. But something's gotta give. Panicked students are starting to show up at office hours, which means you can’t use that time for other things. Your lesson plans used to be typed out neatly, but now they are jotted on a sticky note on the back of your hand, or stuck to your growing pile of grading. You’ve been making time to write, but now those 1-2 hours once or twice a we