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

Wendy Laura Belcher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141295701X ISBN 13: 9781412957014

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2009

Synopsis

"This book is a wonderful addition to a graduate course on professional writing, to a writers′ group in need of some structure, or even to the lone writer who needs assistance becoming an academic writer."
―Chronicle of Higher Education

Wendy Laura Belcher′s Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success is a revolutionary approach to enabling academic authors to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields. Each week, readers learn a particular feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. At the end of twelve weeks, they send their article to a journal. This invaluable resource is the only guide that focuses specifically on publishing humanities and social science journal articles.
Key Features
Has a proven record of helping graduate students and professors get published: This workbook, developed over a decade of teaching scholarly writers in a range of disciplines at UCLA and around the world, has already helped hundreds to publish their articles in peer reviewed journals.
Demystifies the academic publishing process: This workbook is based on actual research about faculty productivity and peer review, students′ writing triumphs and failures, as well as the author′s experiences as a journal editor and award winning author.
Proceeds step by manageable step: Within the context of clear deadlines, the workbook provides the instruction, exercises, and structure needed to revise a classroom essay, conference paper, dissertation chapter, master′s thesis, or unfinished draft into a journal article and send it to a suitable journal.
Targets the biggest writing challenges: This workbook focuses squarely on the most difficult tasks facing scholarly writers, such as getting motivated, making an argument, and creating a logical whole.
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks can be used individually or in groups, and is particularly appropriate for graduate student professional development courses, junior faculty orientation workshops, post doc groups, and journal article writing courses.
Wendy Laura Belcher is associate professor of African literature at Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature and Center for African American Studies. She has taught journal article writing workshops in North America, Europe, and Africa.
Praise for Wendy Belcher and Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

"A comprehensive, well written and beautifully organized book on publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences that will help its readers write forward with a first rate guide as good company."

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Laura Belcher is professor of African literature in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Department for African American Studies. This book is the first edition, now outdated.

Review:

"Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks is the one book I would most recommend to inexperienced academic authors in the humanities or social sciences who seriously wish to see their scholarly work in print. Other books may be quicker to read, but I doubt if any would ultimately prove to be as effective." Author: Steven E. Gump Published On: 2010-03-15

"Thorough, beautifully organized, and humane.  This is a welcome light on a dark process." Author: Kevin Peterson Published On: 2010-12-07

"Belcher′s book uses an interactive format to help writers develop a manuscript for submission from a pre-existing text such as a dissertation/thesis... When I used this book to teach writing for publication, doctorial students responded enthusiastically to the format and tone, which bolstered their confidence and enabled them to confront displacement activities." Author: Mary Jane Curry

"While addressing the sometimes-unsearchable field of scholarly writing and publishing, Wendy Belcher uses unpretentious, contemporary, and even witty prose that is simultaneously captivating and informative." Author: Grant Eckstein Published On: 2010-05-03

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 141295701X
• ISBN 13: 9781412957014
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376