Resumen de Enabling writing behaviours of successful professors: Insights into optimising research writing practices
Nicholas A. Baker, Vijay Kumar, Julie A. Timmermans
Scholarly investigations continue to explore academics’ behaviourstowards writing in an effort to optimise research writing productivity.One such suite of behaviours which has received limited focus fromprevious investigations is known as ‘enabling behaviours’ – behavioursused to intentionally create environments that enable and optimisewriting productivity. This qualitative study reveals and explores theenabling behaviours of 16 successful professors from a research-intensive university in New Zealand. These behaviours that emergedfrom the analysis centre on creating writing rhythms and relationshipswith technologies and locales. This study provides insights into therelationship formation processes with time, technology, and space asthe enabling behaviours of successful professors. These insights areuseful for research writers to optimise their own research writing practices.
