Category: Writing & Publishing
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Writing a Literature Review: Three Tasks, Not One
A literature review is not one task but three. Here is how I explain the difference to my students, and how to decide what belongs where.
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Writing as Theorising for Language Education
This post explores theorising for practice in language education, showing how reflective and reflexive writing help teachers connect classroom experience with theory to develop situated, evidence-informed understandings (small-t theories) of their professional practice.
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Writing Together: Reflections on the Craft, Dynamics, and Politics of Co-Authorship
This post explores the forms, tools, and ethics of collaborative writing, reflecting on what co-authorship teaches us about trust, dialogue, and the shared making of scholarly identity.
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Writing an MA dissertation
The post presents three MA students’ insights into writing successful dissertations. It covers challenges that they faced as well as advice for successfully engaging with the process.
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How to spot a predatory journal (and why to avoid them!)
Publishing your work in a predatory journal is a very bad career move. This post explains why, and presents a list of six criteria to help you avoid this mistake.
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What happens to an article after it has been submitted to a journal?
This post describes the hidden processes that take place before an article appears in an academic journal.
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Peer review: The good, the bad and the ugly
What can we learn from bad feedback?
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What do predatory journals look like?
A list of red flags that can help you identify predatory journals and other, similar scams in academic publishing.
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Publishing the ‘Greek Tragedy’ chapter
A step-by-step account of how I published a chapter in an edited collection (Resistance to the Known; Rivers 2014)