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| Author: Paul J. Silvia
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $10.17
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 4486
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 149
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1591477433
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9781591477433
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 An easy, helpful read June 21, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is the perfect length, so you'll actually get through it. The chapters are focused, and the topics covered are relevant and useful. I've really enjoyed reading it.
Silvia's style is funny without trying too hard, which makes a short book go even faster. My favorite chapters... Chapter 2 (on specious barriers to writing a lot) will motivate you and get you to finally give writing a place in your schedule. Chapter 3 (Motivational tools) presents time-tested goal-setting tips that will help you start writing and keep going. Chapter 5 (a brief foray into style) gives you just enough tips on style and improving your writing that you might actually take some of his advice.
I'm in a PhD program in psychology, so his advice to students and professors (which comes from his experience in psychology) seems really helpful and relevant, but I wonder if the tips in chapters 6 and 7 (on writing journal articles and books, respectively) would be less helpful to people from very different fields. Anyone would benefit just from reading chapters 1-5, though, so I still whole-heartedly recommend it.
Graduate student, faculty member, or writer? Read this book! February 8, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Better yet, implement the behavioral plan. The book will not do you much good if you do not implement a plan. Silvia writes a clear and concise book. His advice cuts the heart of every writer's problem. In fact, the more a person gets further into a profession, the more that person relies on writing. Writing, therefore, becomes the curve ball of professional development and advancement. Baseball players who cannot hit the curve ball never make it into the major league. Academics who do not write, do not get tenure. Scientists who do not write do not contribute to science. Silvia offers us a simple plan that will get you moving toward hitting the professional's curve ball; read it and write.
Student enjoys use June 30, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
From a Student's Perspective
This book is an excellent tool for students to conquer roadblocks to BEGIN writing. There is a an important and very well laid out emphasis on setting a schedule for writing.
Reading the book does really make you see that writers are not born, they are people who devote time to writing and practice it. This book is also NOT one of those books that tell you SIT DOWN and DO IT! - because if it really were that easy wouldn't we all be accomplished writers in junior high?
I bought this along with 4-5 other books on writing for publication because I am currently working on my first ever paper for publication and the sheer size of this book made me choose to open this one first. Don't judge it by it's size, in fact be glad of it's size. It's valuable information in a concise manner.
short and to the point July 25, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is excellent for anyone - I mean absolutely anyone - who is struggling with their efforts to be a prolific writer. The book is addressed to academics in the field of psychology, but the central lessons of the book are relevant for writers in any discipline, as well as those who write fiction, memoirs or whatever. I love the no-nonsense approach and the author's straightforward, easy to remember, easy to follow, advice. Best of all, the book is very short - it can be read in one or two sittings - so you can stop wasting your time reading and get back to what you really should be doing: writing.
 not bad, but is that all? November 2, 2007
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
the author tells that we should make a schedule of writing as we have time for teaching, eating, swimming and so on--to make it routine.
but don't you need something more when you buy a book?
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