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Version License: MIT

writing-log-docx: Writing log template for MS Word

Introduction

Use this writing log in parallel to the main writing project document to track your progress and record your plans.

The writing log is a document that is external to the manuscript. It stores the plans and progress made on one manuscript. It is a tool for enhancing your focus and sustaining momentum on the writing project. It is also a tool that eases re-engagement in an interrupted writing project. The writing log is like a master thinking document or a second brain for a writing project.

Instructions for using the writing log are found in the annotations in the template. You can delete these after they are no longer needed.

Version 0.3 of the writing log is divided into four sections:

  • project initiation
  • daily entries
  • future additions and tangents
  • Guidelines, checklists, protocols, and helpful tips

The subsections of these four sections are shown below.

Project initiation

  • Rationale
  • Audience
  • Target journals
  • Related projects
  • Potential Introduction
  • Potential Results
  • Potential Discussion points
  • Prior discussion points
  • Potential titles
  • Potential keywords
  • Potential abstract
  • Abbreviations
  • Potential collaborators
  • Potential competitors
  • Potential reviewers
  • Draft cover letter

Daily entries

  • Daily Protocol
  • Daily Log
  • Update writing progress notebook
  • Update personal knowledge base
  • Timeline or Benchmarks
  • Next action
  • To be done
  • Word Count

Future additions and tangents

  • Ideas to consider adding to the manuscript
    • Introduction
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • To be done someday
  • Spin-off writing projects

Guidelines, checklists, protocols, helpful hints

  • Tips for using Overleaf
  • Protocol for running Grammarly in Overleaf
  • Guidelines for debugging the annotated bibliography
  • Graphical Abstract
  • Guidelines for benchmarks
  • Guidelines for using the Writing Progress Notebook
  • Guidelines for using a personal knowledge base

Related projects of possible interest

Update history

Version Changes Date
Version 0.3.1 Added funding and update table. 2024 August 11

Sources of funding

  • NIH: R01 CA242845
  • NIH: R01 AI088011
  • NIH: P30 CA225520 (PI: R. Mannel)
  • NIH: P20 GM103640 and P30 GM145423 (PI: A. West)