Category: Writing & Publishing
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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 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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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…
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Presenting multilingual data: Some options
In the previous post of the Researching Multilingually series, I discussed some considerations that impacted the representation of multilingual data. In this post, I follow up on those considerations, by presenting four options that can be used to present multilingual data in a research report. These options, which can be thought of as a ‘cline of representational positions’,…
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Where can I find calls for papers for TESOL?
So, you have written or are planning to write a paper on language education, TESOL or applied linguistics – but do you know where to publish it? The easiest way forward usually is to submit your work to one of the many journals in the field. Another option is to consider an edited volume or…
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Possible scam involving academic publishing?
You will never get a fee for publishing in an academic journal. According to a recent post in Scholarly Open Access (a now [2019] defunct blog, which used to report on academic publishing scams), there is at least one academic publisher so keen to recruit authors and editors that they offer rewards of “1,000-10,000 dollars as…