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Joshua Doležal's avatar

Thanks for keeping us up to date, Karen! This seems like a great new feature. I've added it to the emails for free and paid subscribers.

In case it's of interest to anyone, here is the email I send to new paid subscribers. I'd love to see others' emails. Maybe we should do a pop-up workshop for surveys? :)

The subject line is "How can I help?"

Building community is a big part of why I continue to write on Substack.

I’d love it if you could take this short survey to let me know why you upgraded your subscription.

(survey button)

Now that you are a member, you’ve also unlocked the the full archive. Here are three posts that have been especially useful to readers. If you can tell me a little more about your interests, I can also point you to previous posts that you might enjoy.

The Big Quit (My first feature for The Chronicle of Higher Education, which tracks the impact of the Great Resignation on academe, specifically the departure of tenure-line faculty like me.)

Don’t go to school just to be poor (Gertrude Nonterah, creator of The Bold PhD, recounts her disillusionment with postdoctoral research and her awakening as a medical communications professional.)

How to break writer’s block as a memoirist (A surefire strategy for generating ideas for personal essays while also identifying story-worthy scenes.)

Thanks for joining The Recovering Academic community!

Josh

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L.G. Wells's avatar

Thanks so much for this post! I am new to Substack and found the "Take Survey" button while setting up my emails, but wasn't sure what the heck to do with it. Thanks for helping me figure that out.

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