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Ten years’ experience with a program at the University of Wollongong provides insights into the benefits and challenges in supporting a new writing habit.  \nIntroduction  \nI coordinate a writing program for academics and research students at the University of Wollongong. The core of the program is daily writing. Every member is encouraged to write some ‘new text’ – text of an article, thesis, blog, grant application or diary – most days of the week, spending five to twenty minutes per day at this task. Members are encouraged to keep a log of their writing specifically how much new text they write each day and how many minutes this took. They are also invited to send their log to me, as a method of accountability. In addition to writing new text most days, participants carry out their other usual research activities such as collecting and analysing data, reading, revising texts and submitting articles.  \nUnlike most other methods used to boost research performance, the writing program is based on published evidence. In this article, I describe some of the studies underlying the writing program and then tell about what I’ve learned over the ten years it has been running.  \nBackground  \nRobert Boice is a psychologist and education researcher who worked at the State University of New York. In the 1980s, he carried out investigations concerning the research productivity of newly appointed academics. He noticed that most junior academics felt under a lot of stress. They put most of their energy into teaching with the result that their research output was low. They postponed writing until they had large blocks of time or until the pressure became too great. Then they would write continuously for lengthy periods. Boice  \nsuspected that this typical approach of procrastination and bingeing was not very productive.  \nBoice also observed a small number of new academics who seemed to be more productive while being less stressed. They carried out their teaching and research using brief daily sessions. Boice thought that the same approach might help other academics to become more productive and set out to test this idea. In one study, he compared the research output of three groups of junior academics (Boice, 1989). One group was left to proceed in their usual way (procrastinating and bingeing ). The second group was instructed to write every day in brief sessions, while the third group was instructed to write every day and to report to Boice regularly.  \nThe first group, procrastinating and bingeing, had a very low output. The second group wrote several times as much and the third group was even more productive. Boice’s results showed that changing junior academics’ writing habits could greatly increase their productivity. In another study he showed that daily writing also led to greater creativity in dealing with their research topics (Boice, 1983).  \nAlthough Boice wrote books as well as many articles about his studies (e.g. Boice 1990, 2000), I never heard about them until reading a short cogent book titled Publish & Flourish written by Tara Gray (2005/2020). Gray, a professor at New Mexico State University, in her own research confirmed Boice’s results (Gray and Birch, 2001; Gray et al., 2018) . Furthermore, she formulated a multi-step program for higher research productivity. The program is based on brief daily sessions. It also has various other steps, including seeking comments on drafts from non-experts and then from experts before sending polished texts to publishers. It is compatible with recommendations from a number of  \nvol. 62, no. 2, 2020 A program for writing Brian Martin 83  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nother authors ( Jensen, 2017; Johnson and Mullen, 2007; ","cbCaissrK0WLkSlY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaissrK0WLkSlY","pdf",138093,"English","# Introduction\n## The writing program\n## Background and evidence\n## The writing program in practice","[{\"question\":\"What is the core structure of the writing program?\",\"answer\":\"The program is built around daily writing sessions in which participants create new text—such as articles, theses, blogs, grant applications, or diary entries—most days of the week.\"},{\"question\":\"How is accountability handled in the program?\",\"answer\":\"Participants keep a log recording how much new text they write each day and how many minutes it takes, and they are invited to send the log to the program coordinator.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence is used to support the program?\",\"answer\":\"The article describes studies by Robert Boice showing that brief daily writing increases research output and creativity compared with procrastination and bingeing, and it cites confirmations from Tara Gray’s research.\"}]","A program for writing - Opinion - Writing program | PDF"]