It’s happening: Your deadline looms, and you realize your manuscript has grown longer then necessary. How long until it’ll be shipshape? You click the mouse. And then the blinking cursor stare back, taunting you. Writers tend to default to their typical reading speed when proofreading, which isn’t the best method. Because proofreading is an act […]

There’s nothing like being 3-minutes over your allotted time with the mic about to be pulled from your hands by the moderator before you’ve even finished a sentence. This usually stems from confusion over speaking pace versus reading speed, which almost never match up under pressure. So you wrote out your speech, timed yourself reading […]

It’s another day. You grab your copy of new journal in your field, pour yourself a cup of coffee and begin to read. The title seem right; the abstract sounded relevant; it is only 45 minutes until your next meeting. It begins. Ten pages later, you’re hopelessly stuck in statistics, confused about a figure that […]

There’s a moment when you pick up a fat hardback: full of good intentions but no data to support them. The book cover claims it will be an adventure; your calendar yells about how you only have Saturday morning and Tuesday night to devote to this. Page count is an easy metric we use to […]