Tweed Resources
Scroll down for original resources in three categories:
TOOLS & PRINTABLES: Compendium of Academic Verbs, Critique Me cover-page template, Writer-at-Work door tag
DISSERTATION-TO-BOOK GUIDES: Step-by-step guides to revising a dissertation into a book manuscript (new editions coming soon!)
WRITING PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION: Computer wallpaper and printable posters to motivate writers
Tools & Printables
Working-from-Home Door Tags
PDFs available in color and mono. To reinforce, print on card stock—or mount on a manila folder!
Tweed’s Ever-Expanding Compendium of Academic Verbs
PDF of 250 verbs useful for discussing scholarship (state, advocate, problematize, elucidate, etc.)
Critique Me
A customizable form to use as a cover sheet when sending drafts to friends and colleagues for feedback
Scholarly Resolution Form
Fill in this certificate to solidify your scholarly resolutions. Any time of year is a great time to think about the reasons for a goal, break it down into steps, decide on resources to consult, and commit to rewarding yourself for achieving it.
Writer-at-Work Door Tag Template
PDF, 3 to a page (give extras to friends and colleagues)
Tweed establishes the Writing Progress Administration to put writers back to work! Initiatives include recasting writing as public work, skill-building, and professional training. Authors are the backbone of a critical and informed society and therefore deserve relief—even if it takes the form of computer wallpapers and printable posters.
Below is a smattering of the WPA’s pro-writer propaganda; visit the blog for all WPA productions.
And don’t forget about the Tweed blog!
The Labor of Scholarly Writing
It's Labor Day weekend in the United States, and I'm finding that I actually do have time to enjoy the holiday. This is no small achievement. Since you readers are academics, I'm guessing you're pretty familiar with quasi–free time. Our work is sprawling and...
Now Booking for August
Need some scholarly editing this summer? Summer 2012 is flashing before my eyes. It's hardly the end of May, and I'm already thinking about August. University presses, professors, post-docs, and a dissertator or two have already marked up the June and July pages of my...
Weekends Are for Writers
Whatever you have planned for the weekend, make the most of it, writers!
Did You See the Last Tweed Newsletter?
In case you missed it, I draw your attention to the last issue of the Tweed newsletter, Annotations. In it, I unveiled a new structure that highlights the best of the academic-writing Web and Tweed's website, too. Look how long—but, I hasten to add, easily...
Claremont Talks Tweed
My scrapbook is filling up with clippings this fall. First Copyediting.com interviewed me, and now this: the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, my primary research affiliation from Claremont, profiles me and Tweed in the new fall issue of its newsletter,...
Thank You All
I'm so thankful—I could write a book! Thank you all.