At Defend, Publish & Lead, we take a holistic approach to every writing task. Completed, well-written projects contribute to research trajectory, career mobility, and leadership opportunities as chairs, deans, provosts, and presidents. Learn how to approach complex writing challenges and develop sustainable writing practices with our individual coaching sessions, university workshops, Tuesday Toolbox writing lessons, and public events.
We can help with writing emergencies such as writer’s block and missed deadlines. Yet we can also help with proactive writing coaching and workshops in scholarly writing skills such as project and time management, development of job documents, book proposal development, and writing as an academic leader.
Defend, Publish & Lead differs from other academic writing coaching companies. Because of advanced training in writing studies, coaches focus on improving the scholarly writing processes of the writer versus the writing itself. While we can edit, suggest wording, and format documents to meet dissertation or publication requirements, we can help writers with more advanced writing tasks such as organizing writing for clarity of purpose and structure, fine tuning research questions, developing paragraphs using sources as supports, and designing job talk or dissertation defense presentations.
Our practices are grounded in research conducted by our writing coaches and published in these works including How Writing Faculty Write, Write Like You Teach, Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, Faculty Writing Support, and Productivity, Professionalism, and Parenting. We don’t just coach faculty writers; we continually research best practices to support them.
