TO DO
01
Write every day (with at least one or two days off a week) for at least thirty minutes and no longer than four hours on most days. Dedicate time to writing in your weekly schedule and protect that time from other responsibilities (and distractions).
Maintaining your writing practice will continue to be challenging as you manage your job market activities, but making time to write is crucial, especially as we reach the halfway point in the fellowship year. This may require you to rededicate yourself to your writing practice.
Your Timeline to Completion and Task-Based Dissertation Plan will help you keep your long-term goals in focus.
MAINTAIN YOUR WRITING PRACTICE
02
PARTNERS:
You have new partners for the next two months. Check in frequently or coordinate on cowriting together (via Zoom or another method that you find helpful).
Arón and Luz
Brenda and Valentina
Roxana and Lisa
MONTHLY CHECK-IN:
Meeting with the entire cohort on Thursday, December 8, 1:00 pm CST.
The Zoom link was sent via Google calendar invite. Due to the holidays, we will only meet once during the November/December block.
UPDATE IUPLR:
You should have sent an email to your IUPLR Director by November 1.
They were expecting you to write by this date. Your update needed to include your revised Timeline to Completion, including an anticipated date for your dissertation defense, and Task-Based Dissertation Plan. You should have cc'd Deanna (dledez2@uic.edu), Algae (aguzma76@uic.edu), and Nena Torres (torresma@uic.edu).
PEER REVIEW:
We will start peer reviews in January. The guidelines and expectations are included in this Google doc.
Please look at your plan and sign up to submit a draft for peer review no later than December 5 at noon.
Community and support
03
Review your reflections from past months and reflect on your writing process from the start of the fellowship until now. Then, write about how you plan to write for the second half of the fellowship given any changes to your plan. Will your writing routine change or stay the same?
REFLECT
04
Revise your Timeline to Completion and Task-Based Dissertation Plan. Your updates should account for progress made in November and adjustments needed to accomplish your goals in the second half of the fellowship.
Your timeline and plan should be updated before our meeting on December 8.