Faculty Writing Group
Do you struggle to find time each week to work on your projects? Do you need accountability to prepare your tenure dossier?
If so, then welcome to the Faculty Writing Group! The Faculty Writing Group is a multi-disciplinary group of interested faculty who wish to bolster their research productivity and enhance their writing practices through accountability and motivation from their peers.
Core Principles
The Faculty Writing Group will provide accountability, support, and structure to help all interested faculty with their own research and writing goals. Faculty Writing Group Members will meet weekly to discuss the practice and habit of writing and encourage each other's writing goals.
Please note: This group is not a collaborative research group. Faculty will work on their own individual projects and rely on peers only for accountability and support.
Summer 2025 Writing Group Retreat
The Faculty Writing Group will hold a Writing Retreat during Summer A. Join your colleagues in the Talon Room on Wednesday, May 28 and Thursday, May 29 from 10:00 - 3:00 to work on your writing projects. If you are interested in participating in the Summer 2025 Writing Group Retreat, please complete . The Summer Writing Group Retreat will be held in-person only.
Fall 2025 Writing Group Meetings
Information about the weekly meetings of the Fall 2025 Faculty Writing Group will be posted at the beginning of the fall semester.
How to Participate
Interested faculty should sign up via the Qualtrics Link specific to the semester. The Qualtrics Link for Fall 2025 will be posted at the beginning of the fall semester. There is no deadline to register, and faculty can join at any time.
Faculty will commit to attend at least 14 out of 16 scheduled Faculty Writing Group Sessions and maintain the each week. (Faculty joining the Faculty Writing Group in the middle of the semester should adjust their attendance commitment accordingly.) If a faculty member cannot attend a weekly writing session because of conference travel or an emergency, they should email Liz Brown or indicate that in the Faculty Writing Group Spreadsheet.
Questions?
Faculty members with questions can email Dr. Elizabeth Brown.
What to Expect for Fall 2025 Writing Group Meetings
First Meeting
During the first meeting, each writing group member will discuss and brainstorm three realistic writing goals for the semester using goals guidelines. These writing goals can be as small or as complex as needed, and these writing goals can be tailored specifically to each faculty's needs.
Example: WG1: I will revise four book chapters for my edited book by the deadline March 12. Chapter 1 revisions are due by the end of the month, Chapter 2 revisions are due by Feb 14, Chapter 3 revisions are due by the end of February, and Chapter 4 revisions are due March 12.
Weekly Meetings
During each weekly scheduled writing group, the group will spend the first few minutes discussing writing goals for the next two hours and for the week. Then, those connecting online can log out of the Zoom meeting to work independently, and those in-person can work independently in the room.
At approximately 2:25 p.m., all participants will rejoin the writing group, either through the Zoom meeting or in the room itself. Group members will then debrief and share their progress and dismiss by 2:30 p.m.
What’s In It For You?
Meet wonderful colleagues around campus.
Accomplish some of your scholarly goals.
Foster a sense of community and accountability with fellow faculty.
Contact
Elizabeth Brown
Fellow | Faculty Writing Group
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
elizabeth.r.brown@unf.edu