The written word
For someone that never excelled at English in high school, I’ve written far more in my career than I ever would have imagined. Curious at the extent, I summed up how much writing I’ve published in the past 15 years.
Peer reviewed writing
I started with my peer reviewed academic work, including my research publications and my textbook.
| Title | Pages |
| eCommerce: A stakeholder approach | 249 pages |
| Job Applicants’ Information Privacy Protection Responses: Using Social Media for Candidate Screening | 25 pages |
| Global Virtual Team Performance: The Effect of Coordination Effectiveness, Trust, and Team Cohesion |
17 pages |
| The Moderating Effect of Virtuality on Team Trust and Effectiveness | 16 pages |
| Changing Multitasking Intention with Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences | 23 pages |
| Supply chain management technology: a review of empirical literature and research agenda | 20 pages |
| Review and outlook of work breakdown structure for complex product manufacturing | 17 pages |
| Searching for Alternatives: Does Your Disposition Matter? | 19 pages |
| Asking for Facebook Logins: An Egoist Case for Privacy | 13 pages |
| Tourism in the Sharing Economy: How Novelty Seeking Impacts Travel Intentions | 19 pages |
| Online Review Antecedents of Trust, Purchase, and Recommendation Intention: A Simulation-Based Experiment for Hotels and AirBnBs | 25 pages |
| A Critical Analysis of Active Learning and an Alternative Pedagogical Framework for Introductory Information Systems Courses | 15 pages |
| Five Principles for MOOC Design: With a Case Study | 19 pages |
| A Cognitive Approach to Assessing the Materials in Problem-Based Learning Environments | 21 pages |
| Risk in Information Technology Project Portfolio Management | 12 pages |
| Screening Job Candidates With Social Media: A Manipulation of Disclosure Requests | 22 pages |
| The Importance of Individual Characteristics on Consideration Sets for Online Auction Buyers | 18 pages |
| An Exploratory Look at Early Online Auction Decisions: Extending Signal Theory | 14 pages |
| Total | 564 pages |
That’s 564 pages with my name listed as an author. Well over half of that was single-authored and estimated 80% where I was first author and wrote a significant portion of the work. That’s roughly 450 or more pages of highly technical work that I directly wrote.
Non-peer reviewed writing
I next looked at non-peer reviewed published works, primarily blog posts. Although I also have a self-published book titled “Success through Reason, Purpose and Pride“, available for purchase on Amazon, the chapters are previous blog posts with no new content. So, I didn’t count that. Some of the blog posts from Reason for Success were reprints from Try Reason!, but not many. For the blog posts, I estimated that the average length of each post I authored was around 2 pages.
| Title | Pages |
| Reason for Success – 50 posts | 100 pages |
| Professor Drake – 60 posts | 120 pages |
| Try Reason! – over 300 posts | 600 pages |
| Total | 820 pages |
That’s more than 800 pages of informal writing.
That’s well over 1000 pages of published work in multiple different styles. That doesn’t count all the writing I’ve done in other contexts that was never published, such as teaching materials, emails, project plans, research proposals, personal journals, etc. It also doesn’t count web pages I’ve written and published, or comments on public sites, such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
However, the sheer output amazes me. I did that in spite of not being very good at English when I was younger. I’ve certainly honed my skills and become a much better writer due to all of this practice. What’s more, I’m excited to continue improving and publishing. I have new book ideas, research projects in development, and endless thoughts I want to share publicly. My hope… the best is yet to come.
