Crafting scholarship in the behavioral and social sciences : writing, reviewing, and editing / Robert M. Milardo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Crafting Scholarship: An Introduction -- Unit 1: Writing for Journals, Grants, and Books -- 2. Writing Journal Articles -- 3. Writing Theory and Review -- 4. Writing Book Reviews -- 5. Writing Book Proposals, Books, and Chapters in Edited Books -- Unit 2: The Experience of Writing -- 6. Managing Risk, Criticism, and the Drunken Monkeys -- 7. Establishing Successful Writing Practices -- 8. How Successful Writers Work: Place and Ritual -- Unit 3: Reviewing and Editing -- 9. Crafting Effective Peer Reviews -- 10. Editors and How They Work.

"Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia. Framed within the context of the editorial and peer review process, the book explores writing, editing, and reviewing in academic publishing. As such it provides unique coverage of how successful writers work, how they manage criticism, and more. Examples from successful scholars provide helpful tips in writing articles, grants, books, book chapters, and reviews. Each chapter features tools that facilitate learning including Best Practices and Writer's Resource boxes to help maximize success, discussion questions and case studies to stimulate critical thinking, and recommended readings to encourage self exploration. A Facebook page provides an opportunity for readers to post writing updates and for instructors to share materials. Highlights include: -Insights on working with journal boards, reviewers, and contributors drawn from the author's 30 years of experience in editing journal articles and writing books.-Describes writing quantitative and qualitative reports, theory and literature reviews, books and chapters, grants, and book reviews"-- Provided by publisher.