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 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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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Scholarly Open Access, an authoritative blog that tracks the activity of predatory publishers, issued a warning (link no longer active) about The International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities (I used to have a link to them as well, but I decided they don’t deserve one), a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 in his blog, discussing the uses and abuses of the impact factor. This is reproduced, with the author’s kind permission, below. Quality control in research: the mysterious case of the bouncing impact factor Research must be…
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From mental health to killer fish
This is a list of news items, stories and other noteworthy content about TESOL and Higher Education, that appeared online on the last week of November 2014.
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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…