This is what’s waiting for me on my desk:

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book (Chicago University Press, 2005)
William Germano, Getting It Published (Chicago University Press, 2001)
Beth Luey, Handbook for Academic Authors (fourth edition, Cambridge UP, 2002)
Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato, Thinking Like Your Editor (W. W. Norton, 2002)
William Zinsser, On Writing Well (Collins, 2006)
Richard A. [...]

Since I hope to put the final touches to my PhD thesis this summer, I was happy to find that Mary McKinney’s Monday Motivator this week focuses on the subject of finishing. The academic coach advises to take projects one step at a time:
You’ll find that finishing a task creates a burst of energy. When [...]

Anne Galloway has started a new weblog Lost in Dissertation, where she will chart her progress during the final two months of writing her PhD thesis. Anne makes dissertation writing fun by following Jane McGonigal ’s idea of posting her best sentence of the day on her blog. I think it is a wonderful idea [...]

To all those out there marking student essays at the moment: are you aware that the typographical fonts of the essays might be influencing your grading?
Student Phil Renaud has a hunch that this might be the case, and supports his hunch with empirical research — he has examined his own essay archive.
Do you make [...]

I just discovered a blog called Academic Coach. It is owned by Mary McKinney, who has created a true treasure trove full of useful advice for dissertation writers and other academics. Check out this stimulating list of tips on “Getting it Written”, with advice on writing basics, rough drafting, and revising.

“Now the trouble began,” Virginia Woolf writes in A Room of One’s Own. “The student who has been trained in research at Oxbridge has no doubt some method of shepherding his question past all distractions till it runs into its answer as a sheep runs into its pen. The student by my side, for instance, [...]

…is a done dissertation. And the best way to start a day of writing: Crooked Timber’s strategic advice on succesful completion of a PhD thesis!