Dear Joseph.
This is interesting...
I also wish to know how others do it.
I am not a good example, because I do things my own way, through my very specific difficulties, but I «make-do», and I usually manage end-results.
I work nonstop for the first semester of the academic year, as I both teach at the University, and keep daily practice of Medicine. I spend long hours in traffic jams, and I should say that my car is a bit of a livong-room and working office for me.
I write short notes in my car, in a little notebook that I keep. Many of my ideas occur, when driving. This is the only place where I find the right peace of mind, to think thoroughly. I am usually alone in the car, and I refuse to answer phones, while driving.
From this mixture of hand-written brainstorming thoughts, I then collect several word files, on my computer, that I review every weekend. (Most of it is junk, but some are to be kept).
Another strange thing I do, is with bibliografic research. As I speak and read several different languages, I usually take bibliografic notes in their original language.
I then collect everything in only one language, usually Portuguese or English, in the respective files, where I took note of my own ideas. This amounts to a very strange collection of notes in 5 or 6 languages, including Latin, and it looks very much liker a manuscript from the Tower of Babel. (I keep many of those, just for the fun)
In the end, it is a question of time to review, and to carefully take notice of the bibliografic refferences.
My interest supplies the energy to overcome the hard work of creation and revision.
Dear Joseph.
This is interesting...
I also wish to know how others do it.
I am not a good example, because I do things my own way, through my very specific difficulties, but I «make-do», and I usually manage end-results.
I work nonstop for the first semester of the academic year, as I both teach at the University, and keep daily practice of Medicine. I spend long hours in traffic jams, and I should say that my car is a bit of a livong-room and working office for me.
I write short notes in my car, in a little notebook that I keep. Many of my ideas occur, when driving. This is the only place where I find the right peace of mind, to think thoroughly. I am usually alone in the car, and I refuse to answer phones, while driving.
From this mixture of hand-written brainstorming thoughts, I then collect several word files, on my computer, that I review every weekend. (Most of it is junk, but some are to be kept).
Another strange thing I do, is with bibliografic research. As I speak and read several different languages, I usually take bibliografic notes in their original language.
I then collect everything in only one language, usually Portuguese or English, in the respective files, where I took note of my own ideas. This amounts to a very strange collection of notes in 5 or 6 languages, including Latin, and it looks very much liker a manuscript from the Tower of Babel. (I keep many of those, just for the fun)
In the end, it is a question of time to review, and to carefully take notice of the bibliografic refferences.
Thank all very much for answers.
I hope to share their experience more authors.
I usually start with answering my research question (tentative), then I break down these question and answer into an IRAC format (Issue, Rule, Argument, and Conclusion). Most of the times, it is continuous rewriting especially when I write in English.
Sometimes it goes nicely hand-drafting. But sometimes it's drudgery.
Mostly then I discover that I have no problem well explored. Or only when writing know that the experiment should be focused on a different issue.
Then we have no choice but to go to the lab and do the necessary.
But that still does not mean the publication :-))
This is another, often a long story.
A book which provides insights in your question is Howard S. Becker's "Writing for Social Scientists". The book does not only give advice for beginners, but also contains a sociological description of the writing process which allow you to question your own approach.
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