Tuesday 25 July 2023

Academic writing - Spring 2023 totals

In Spring 2023, I had 52,5 writing days, compared to 57 originally planned (3 writing days, eventually planned for this July, were transferred to Autumn 2023). Altogether I wrote 23.721 words. On average this results in 452 words per writing day.

The number of writing days compares to 54,5 in Spring 2020, 49,5 in Spring 2021, and 45,5 in Spring 2022. At 52,5, it is slightly higher than the two previous years, but not at record levels.

The volume of words written compares to 25.819 words written in Spring 2021, and 20.781 words written in Spring 2022, while I was still head of department (I wrote only 11.826 words Autumn 2022, my last semester as Head of department). In Spring 2020, I wrote 45.161 words. At 23.721 words, Spring 2023 is not so different from the two last Spring semesters in terms of productivity.

Among what I got done in Spring 2023, was writing the article "The study of past Umwelten" (published this summer in Discipline Philosofiche) and the book chapter "A biosemiotic perspective on the human condition and the environmental crisis" (forthcoming), substantially revising the article now titled "Wasted GDP in the USA" (in review),  and working on two articles with Jan Karlstrøm (one of them with Thomas Hylland Eriksen as a further co-author). I have also written a brief contribution to the book Mars and the Earthlings.

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