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!
Tour the Updated Site
I've been rolling out some site updates over the past few weeks, and I'm excited to share them with you now. First and foremost, Tweed's home page has been revamped to include a central graphic that is both more dramatic and informative than the previous iteration....
Academic Editor Will Read Fiction—for Fun
With some big academic writing projects of my own completed, I finally have not only the time but the psychological space to read some nonacademic, fiction books—for pleasure. Now, I read—and enjoy doing so—all the time. As is more than obvious from my site, I perform...
Trade Tool: Hyphenation Tables
Many of the tools I use as a professional academic editor could be used (and well!) by thoughtful writers and revisers, so I've decided to start featuring some of the handier implements and resources that are part of my editing routine. This first one I actually keep...
TWEED Academic Editing on Kindle!
Kindle users: you can now subscribe to the TWEED blog with your e-reader! This means that all my tutorials, guides, tips, resources, tools, service updates, and Twitter posts are auto-delivered wirelessly to your device. Amazon makes the subscription risk free with a...
This Is Where the Academic Editing Magic Happens
Yes, this is my office. A clean workspace helps me focus, but my desk rarely looks like this. More often, the top is covered with style guides, printouts, scraps of paper, bills, and writing utensils. Especially when I'm in the middle of a project, I allow piles to...
Synchronicity: TWEED and Harvard UP
As Sting and the Police sing, "Effect without cause / Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause / Synchronicity." That's the case with the similarities I encountered this morning. Harvard University Press has published Gary W. Gallagher's The Union War, and the cover bears...