Getting Published in International Journals: Writing Strategies for European Social Scientists, Revised Edition - Softcover

Natalie Reid

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9780692929957: Getting Published in International Journals: Writing Strategies for European Social Scientists, Revised Edition

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ISBN 10: 0692929959 ISBN 13: 9780692929957

Publisher: Professional Publications Press, 2018

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Writing in English is different from writing in any European language. Getting Published in International Journals, Revised Edition, gives European social scientists and other professionals the analytical, contextual, structural, and stylistic writing tools for competing with native speakers of English for limited space in international journals. The book reveals the unwritten rules of English academic rhetoric and discusses them within the context of the different and unconscious expectations accorded both readers and writers with the English linguistic community.

Author Natalie Reid presents five major strategies for maximizing the academic writer’s chances of publication in the top journals in his or her field. These strategies help the writer to recognize and work with linguistic and organizational cues not readily apparent to the untrained eye. In great detail and with numerous examples, the book explains the importance of absolute clarity and Aristotelian argumentation in English academic writing, and gives its readers the grammatical and stylistic tricks of the trade for achieving their publication goals.

Getting Published in International Journals, Revised Edition, functions as both a textbook and a reference work. Its contents cover everything from the grammar rules necessary for the creation of clear sentences to the differences between American and British English, and from how to analyze models of academic abstracts to how to create a successful revise-and-resubmit letter. The book clearly demonstrates what goes wrong when second-language speakers write for English-language journals according to the academic norms of their first language. Moreover, the revised edition contains a wealth of new details on Anglo-American argumentation, the process of journal elimination, and the linguistic (and organizational) analysis of the writer’s target journal.

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About the Author

Natalie Reid (MA, TESOL) has been teaching English writing skills in Europe, Japan, the Pacific, and the U.S. for over 25 years, specializing in academic writing, journal analysis, and technical writing. She is the author of three books on American language and culture, published in Tokyo for a Japanese readership, and is the coauthor of the bilingual Dictionary of English Phrasal Usage. She also designs and teaches language training workshops for native speakers of English in both the public and private sectors. Since the early 2000s she has concentrated on teaching academic writing to, consulting with, and editing books and papers for European social scientists and other professionals. The original edition of Getting Published in International Journals was published in 2010 by NOVA—Norwegian Social Research Institute, Oslo.

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