Tag: academic writing
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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 does a predatory journal look like?
Predatory journals are dishonest publishing ventures that mimic the academic publishing model in order to collect money from naive or desperate academics. I have written elsewhere about some of the features of such journals, but the truth is that –just like pornography– predatory publishing is hard to define and easy to recognise. So what I…
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How are we encouraging predatory publishers?
Recently, Scholarly Open Access, an authoritative blog that tracks the activity of predatory publishers, issued a warning (link no longer active) about The International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities (I used to have a link to them as well, but I decided they don’t deserve one), a fraudulent journal that seems to target ELT professionals.…
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Call for papers: 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing
The 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW 2015) will take place on 19th – 21st November 2015, at the Auckland University of Technology. The theme of the conference is: Learning to write for academic purposes: Advancing theory, research and practice. Keynote speakers include: Ken Hyland, University of Hong Kong, China Rosa Manchón, University of Murcia,…
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“Impact factor is a scam”, argues Curt Rice
Curt Rice, the head of the Board for Current Research Information System in Norway (CRIStin), recently published an interesting article on his blog, discussing the uses and abuses of the impact factor. This is reproduced, by kind permission, below: Quality control in research: the mysterious case of the bouncing impact factor Research must be reliable…
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From mental health to killer fish
This week’s collection of articles and news stories begins with a rather grim reminder of the pressures associated with the publish and perish culture. There is also an inspiring account of what a junior researcher might do when they find out an obvious mistake in the literature. The third article looks into the shady publication practice of conducting…
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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)
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Open Access Week 2014
To mark Open Access Week 2014, here are some links to relevant content: In this blog An overview of open access publishing; A list of myths about Open Access, according to Peter Suber, the director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication; Elsewhere on the web: A video explaining the Open Access publishing model, by…