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Writing Your Journal Article In Twelve Weeks: A Guide To Academic Publishing Success (2000)

by Wendy Laura Belcher(Favorite Author)

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review 1: This book helped me write my first peer-reviewed article. It gave me good advice on how to structure an article and on explaining what all should go into an article. The author gives tons of advice on how to write and publish an article in an easy to understand way. Without exaggeration, I believe she must have felt a higher calling to help those in need. This book felt inspired at times and I’m glad to own this book.
review 2: Keep in mind that when Belcher says 12 weeks, that's not 12 weeks from scratch but 12 weeks to take an essentially written project and convert it into something publishable. My take is that this is largely geared towards people who have little to no publishing/writing experience and who don't seem to have mentors/supervisors/advisers w... moreho are invested in teaching their students about writing and publishing in their area. So if you have writing experience and/or a solid advisor to coach you along, this book might not be all that helpful.I did like the part about turning writing into a social process - very true, and often overlooked/understated. Frankly, most of this material is also covered in Silvia's How to Write A Lot, which is also more condensed. I was a little puzzled by the order of the writing steps suggested, but that could be a difference between fields for all I know. Particularly, coming up with arguments preceded a discussion of a lit review. Now, true, this is meant to turn an already mostly-written piece into publishable material, so I'm assuming a lit review was done done at some point. Nonetheless, lit reviews should happen really early in the process, and will go a long way to shape an argument. And picking a journal oddly preceded the lit review. Often you get an idea of what sort of journal will take your work based on where cited works have already been published, and you can't really pick an appropriate journal until the shape and flavour of the article has been sufficiently established. less

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