Struggling to meet the journal's word count for your article? Here are Three Unusual Tips for how to think about shortening your article. Save it somewhere.
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My vision board workshop resonated so well with participants that I turned it into an Accountability Program for 2024! Visioning - goal creation - breakdown - accountability. Reply here and I'll tell you how to join starting Aug. 2024. #AcademicTwitter #goals #accountability

When we can uncover what we truly want, we can start to imagine possibilities of making our ideas and desires a reality. Create your vision board with me during a 3-hour guided workshop. Tues 16 Feb 9am CET. mehtatext.com/blog/2024-but-…
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Thrilled to share this goddess moment! 🌟 A new client just referred to me as a goddess! Flashback to '09 when I dropped a booklet to help academics write clearer. Today, my client reveals it saved her during her PhD. Hell yeah! 📚💖 #GoddessVibes #PhDLife #ClientLove #AcWri

Just now, Ranjit Hoskote was driven to resign from his distinguished role at #Documenta , for reasons involving the word #antisemitism . The real story is ... just so perverse and bizarre, and it's worth going over. A thread.

Hosting my first official Shut Up and Write session on Monday, 20 Nov in #Singapore . Find more details here and register. Re-post liberally for anyone wanting to be part of a writing community in Singapore. meetup.com/shutupandwrite…
Singapore Writers Network SWF 🤖 #DIDNOTSEETHISCOMING #WritingCommunity

Wishing all my clients, friends, family and followers a very happy Diwali. May our inner light shine so bright as to banish all darkness around us. #happydiwali #diwali #deepavali #diwali 2023

dammmmn. the prime minister in #iceland is on strike, asking for more gender equality in pay. iceland is one of the world's most gender-equal countries. i wonder what she will do if she goes to #india . never work again, i think. #genderpaygap
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The most valued thing in #academia ? A safe, non-judgemental space to explore your ideas, away from the hyper-critical eyes of peers, colleagues and co-authors. Can your #editor support you in your #writing AND thinking? Read how I do it: mehtatext.com/blog/difficult…
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I'm now an official host for Shut Up & Write! in Singapore! Join me on Monday 20 November for an inaugural session. Feel supported, get accountability, be part of a writing community. Shut Up & Write!® in Bukit Timah at Sixth Avenue meetup.com/shutupandwrite… #Meetup via Meetup

when will my students (doctoral and faculty) stop being scared of writing in #plainenglish ? when they see established names in their field writing in plain english. #AcademicTwitter , please stop writing for an audience of 3, and then perhaps more than 3 will read you. #AcWri

for any #Editors or #copyeditors hanging around here: we start a new co-working session in 30 mins. sign up here to receive the link: mehtatext.com/editors-cowork…
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#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdchat #socphd are you ready to stop procrastinating? do you want to 'just get it written'? join us this september for 8 weeks. strategies to be productive and actual writing in a group. sign up now. mehtatext.com/coursesandwork…

When we talk to our students about writing, we SERIOUSLY need to talk to them about *reading*.

I'm re-posting these trends from Jean Twenge (author of GENERATIONS, iGEN) about how little students read these days. Yet reading is critical for writing!!

Providing feedback that moves not only the manuscript forward but also the author and their skills… Can your editor do this?? #AcademicTwitter

Charles Manski on the increasing use of mathematics in economics:

Two men with the combined intelligence of a rabbit are talking about how Romila Thapar should leave India!

Woh aurat nabhe saal ki hai. Like.. she's 15 years older than India.. aur yeh decide karenge ki woh kitni bhatriya hain! Disguting.

for copy editors everywhere - from september 5th, every tuesday, i'll be starting a weekly 2-hour co-working session. free for all. sign up here: mehtatext.com/editors-cowork… #edibuddies #Editors #copyeditors IPEditors Indian Copyeditors Forum #coworking