Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success

But an essential part of becoming a writer is learning to sift useful criticisms from useless ones.

in general, stick with journals that have published issues for at least three years.

When starting out, harsh criticism can stop you in your tracks, but if you persist, you often find that things are not as bad as they seem at first.

Over time, you will get faster. For now, applaud the amount of time you spend on writing instead of bemoaning your low output.

An article presenting original analysis of human expression.

Likewise, if you think you will be writing your dissertation on a particular author/place/culture and you have one paper about that author/place/culture that contains your dissertation argument and another paper on that author/place/culture that does not, pick the latter paper for revision.

You should be spending as much time on establishing social scholarly connections as you do on writing, for the best writing happens in active interaction with your potential audience.

More than one authority has noted that “a well-prepared abstract can be the most important paragraph in your article” (APA 1994, 8).

In this workbook, you are going to work on one facet of being a professor—writing.