Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success
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"This book is a wonderful addition to a graduate course on professional writing, to a writersâ€² group in need of some structure, or even to the lone writer who needs assistance becoming an academic writer."
â€•Chronicle of Higher Education

Wendy Laura Belcherâ€²s 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, studentsâ€² writing triumphs and failures, as well as the authorâ€²s 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, masterâ€²s 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."
â€•Joan Bolker, author of Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
"Humorous, direct, authentic ... a seamless weave of experience, anecdote, and research."
â€•Kathleen McHugh, professor and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women

"Wendy Belcherâ€²s book is revolutionizing the way younger scholars perceive academic publishing and radically transforming their level of access to it (and consequently to the profession). It is by far the most readable or practical guide to academic writing on the market."
â€•Beth Goodhue, UCLA
"Wendyâ€²s guidance has been a tremendous help to me, and the book is great for grad students, junior faculty, or anyone who wants to learn how to write and publish more effectively."
-Jake Dorman, The University of Kansas
Country USA
Brand Sage Publications
Manufacturer SAGE Publications, Inc
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781412957014
UnitCount 1
EANs 8601234616702
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Sage Publications
Manufacturer	SAGE Publications, Inc
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781412957014
UnitCount	1
EANs	8601234616702
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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

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