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`A comprehensive, well-written and beautifully organized book on publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences that will help its readers write forward with a first-rate guide as good company.′ - Joan Bolker, author of Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day

`Humorous, direct, authentic ... a seamless weave of experience, anecdote, and research.′ - Kathleen McHugh, professor and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Wendy Laura Belcher′s Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success is a revolutionary approach to enabling academic authors to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields. Each week, readers learn a particular feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. At the end of twelve weeks, they send their article to a journal. This invaluable resource is the only guide that focuses specifically on publishing humanities and social science journal articles.

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• 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
• Index
• About the Author

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CHOICE Review

Belcher (Princeton) provides a thorough pedagogical approach to creating a publishable work based on a paper written for a classroom assignment. This manual is aimed primarily at graduate students and junior faculty in the social sciences and humanities, but any student (or even a well seasoned scholar) could benefit from the author's practical and specific instructions throughout the volume. Belcher walks readers through a weekly plan that ranges from selecting a paper to responding to journal decisions. The overall organization of the manual shows a coherent and logical progression through the selection, research, writing, editing, and publication processes. Each of the 12 chapters helps keep readers engaged in the process with weekly calendars and other useful grids. Particular strengths of the manual include material on the characteristics of a publishable work, how to formulate arguments as the core of an academic paper, the research skills and analysis necessary to select a suitable journal, and typical article structure in the humanities and social sciences, among other topics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and junior faculty. M. Burright Northwestern University

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Wendy Laura Belcher is an award-winning author, academic editor, international lecturer, and professor. She designed one of the first publication focused writing courses for graduate students and junior faculty in the nation, and for ten years has conducted such courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in research institutions around the world, including those in Norway, Malawi, Sudan, and Egypt. These popular workshops are based on her twenty years of experience as an academic editor, including eleven years managing an ethnic studies press and the peer-reviewed journal of record in the field, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, as well as her two master's degrees in the social sciences and a doctorate in the humanities.

She is also a published nonfiction author, whose memoir about her childhood in Ethiopia and Ghana, Honey from the Lion: An African Journey, won a Washington State Governor's Writers Award and honorable mention in the Martha Albrand/PEN Society Award for first book of nonfiction. She is now an assistant professor of African literature in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies.