Writing for academic journals / Rowena Murray.
By: Murray, Rowena
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BookPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005Description: xiii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0335213936; 0335213928 (pbk); 9780335213924.Subject(s): Authorship | Authorship -- Marketing | Academic writing | Scholarly publishing | Literature | Language learning: writing skills | Education | Reference worksDDC classification: 808.066 | 808.066 MUR Summary: Busy academics must publish. To fulfil research output, they must write to a specific journal style and high standard while juggling other professional tasks. This book develops understanding of how writing happens, what good writing looks and feels like, what gets published and what does not and why.
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Busy academics must publish. To fulfil research output, they must write to a specific journal style and high standard while juggling other professional tasks. This book develops understanding of how writing happens, what good writing looks and feels like, what gets published and what does not and why.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Busy academics must publish. To fulfil research output, they must write to a specific journal style and high standard while juggling other professional tasks. This book develops understanding of how writing happens, what good writing looks and feels like, what gets published and what does not and why.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Beyond reason and vanity Why write for academic journals?
- Targeting a journal
- Finding a topic and developing an arguement Outlining
- Drafting
- Revising the draft
- Finding time to write Dialogue and feedback
- Responding to reviewers' feedback
- Bibliography
- Index