To write a paper under pressure ... When deadlines are closing in, you don’t have time to read entire books or academic papers. This is when strategic research becomes crucial.

I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

Here are two words that might make you swoon with longing or simmer with envy: book leave.