Writing your journal article in 12 weeks : a guide to academic publishing success / Wendy Laura Belcher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Using This Workbook Goals of the workbook -- History of the workbook -- Philosophy of the workbook -- Pedagogy of the workbook -- General instructions -- Using the workbook according to your temperament, discipline, or career stage -- Using the workbook by yourself, with a writing partner, in a writing group, with coauthors, or to teach a class -- Feedback to the author -- Week 1: Designing Your Plan for Writing Instruction: Understanding feelings about writing -- Keys to positive writing experiences -- Designing a plan for submitting your article in twelve weeks -- Exercises: Selecting a paper for revision -- Choosing your writing site -- Designing your writing schedule -- Anticipating and overturning writing obstacles -- Week 2: Starting Your Article Instruction: Types of academic articles -- Myths about publishable journal articles -- What gets published and why -- Abstracts as a tool for success -- Getting started on your article revision -- Exercises: Hammering out your topic -- Rereading your paper -- Drafting your abstract -- Reading a model article -- Revising your abstract -- Week 3: Advancing Your Argument Instruction: Common reasons why journals reject articles -- Main reason journal articles are rejected: no argument -- Making a good argument -- Organizing your article around your argument -- Exercises: Drafting your argument -- Reviewing your article for an argument -- Revising your article around your argument -- Week 4: Selecting a Journal Instruction: Good news about journals -- The importance of picking the right journal -- Types of academic journals: nonrecommended, questionable, and preferred.Finding suitable academic journals -- Exercises: Searching for journals -- Evaluating academic journals -- Matching your article to suitable journals -- Reading relevant journals -- Writing a query letter to editors -- Making a final decision about which journal -- Week 5: Reviewing the Related Literature Instruction: Reading the scholarly literature -- Types of scholarly literature -- Strategies for getting reading done -- Identifying your relationship to the related literature -- Avoiding plagiarism -- Writing about others' research -- Exercises: Evaluating your current citations -- Identifying and reading the related literature -- Evaluating the related literature -- Writing or revising your related literature review -- Week 6: Strengthening Your Structure Instruction: On the importance of structure -- Types of structures -- Article structures in the social sciences and humanities -- Solving structural problems -- Revising for structure -- Exercises: Outlining a model article -- Outlining your article -- Restructuring your article -- Week 7: Presenting Your Evidence Instruction: Types of evidence -- Writing up evidence in the social sciences -- Writing up evidence in the humanities -- Revising your evidence -- Exercises: Discussing evidence in your field -- Revisiting your evidence -- Shaping your evidence around your argument -- Week 8: Opening and Concluding Your Article Instruction: On the importance of openings -- Revising your opening and conclusion -- Exercises: Revising your title -- Revising your introduction -- Revisiting your abstract, related literature review, and author order -- Revising your conclusion -- Week 9: Giving, Getting, and Using Others' Feedback Instruction: Types of feedback -- Exchanging your articles -- Exercises: Sharing your article and getting feedback -- Making a list of remaining tasks -- Revising your article according to feedback -- Week 10: Editing Your Sentences Instruction: On taking the time -- Types of revising -- The rules of editing -- The Belcher diagnostic test -- Editing your article -- Exercises: Running the Belcher diagnostic test -- Revising your article with the diagnostic test -- Correcting other types of problem sentences -- Week 11: Wrapping Up Your Article Instruction: On the perils of perfection -- Finalizing your article -- Exercises: Finalizing your argument, related literature review, introduction, evidence, structure, and conclusion -- Week 12: Sending Your Article! Instruction: On the importance of finishing -- Getting the submission ready -- Exercises: Writing the cover letter -- Preparing illustrations -- Putting your article into the journal's style -- Preparing the final print or electronic version -- Send and celebrate!Week X: Responding to Journal Decisions Instruction: An exhortation -- Waiting for the journal's decision -- Reading the journal's decision -- Types of journal decisions -- Responding to journal decisions -- Exercises: Evaluating and responding to the journal decision -- Planning your revision -- Revising your article -- Drafting your revision cover letter -- Requesting permissions -- On the importance of persevering.End Notes -- Works Cited -- Recommended Reading -- About the Author.

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