Publish, don't perish : the scholar's guide to academic writing and publishing

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Publish, don't perish : the scholar's guide to academic writing and publishing

Joseph M. Moxley ; foreword by Robert Boice

Greenwood Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Publish, Don't Perish provides practical suggestions for conveiving, developing, marketing, and publishing scholarly documents. Written especially for faculty, graduate students, and professionals engaged in the business of scholarly publishing, this useful book offers concrete strategies for researching and publishing adademic manuscripts. Joseph M. Moxley, a widely published author and editor, presents working habits and attitudes that academicians can use to shatter writing blocks, develop original ideas, and improve as writers. Throughout Publish, Don't Perish, Moxley illustrates how the generative nature of language empowers academicians to develop and publish original ideas. Because writing promotes thinking and creativity, Moxley argues that we should be concerned that only about 10 to 20 percent of faculty appear to be responsible for 90 percent of what's published. If we could engage more faculty in practical and theoretical scholarship, Moxley argues that we could hope for some solutions to the subtantive problems now confronting us as world citizens and educators. Moxley identifies the political and economic factors that impinge on what avademicians write and on what is published, critiquing the peer-review process, the star system,' the denigration of practical scholarship, and the adversarial view of scholarship and teaching. He outlines new policies that institutions, professional organizations and scholars can make to encourge more faculty to engage in scholarship, An appendix of information sources offers material for further reading on both writing and publishing as well as guides to publishing outlets for scholars.

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Introduction How to Get Started What Writing Myths Intrude with Your Scholarship? How to Develop Scholarly Projects How to Draft and Organize Scholarly Projects Guidelines for Developing a Writing and Research Notebook How to Market and Submit Your Manuscripts The Conventions of Academic Discourse How to Write Informative Abstracts How to Write Introductions and Conclusions How to Shape Effective Paragraphs How to Write Book Reviews How to Write Quantitative Research Reports How to Write Qualitative Research Reports and Literary Nonfiction How to Compile an Anthology of Original Essays How to Write Book Proposals How to Write Proposals for Grants How to Document Sources, Observe Copyright and Provide Acknowledgments How to Revise and Edit Your Work How to Attack Your Manuscripts Like an Editor or Reviewer How to Edit Documents Like a Copy Editor Current Issues and Emerging Possibilities Where Can We Go from Here? Appendixes Index

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