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.
Tag: academic writing
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.
Peer review: The good, the bad and the ugly
What can we learn from bad feedback?
What do predatory journals look like?
If you have been in academic publishing for a while you have likely received multiple invitation from shady publishing ventures, which solicit content and ask you to pay for its publication. These emails come from what are known as predatory journals. This article aims to help you identify such journals, by providing a list of… Continue reading What do predatory journals look like?
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Scholarly Open Access, an authoritative blog that tracks the activity of predatory publishers, issued a warning (link no longer active) about The International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities (I used to have a link to them as well, but I decided they don’t deserve one), a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.… Continue reading How are we encouraging predatory publishers?
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,… Continue reading Call for papers: 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing
“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… Continue reading “Impact factor is a scam”, argues Curt Rice
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… Continue reading From mental health to killer fish
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)