As a graduate student, you might feel pressure to publish your work in an academic journal ASAP. Sometimes this pressure will turn into a compulsion to aim for the top journal in your field–you may have heard particularly cantankerous faculty members in your department (they are in every department) claim that publishing in “low quality”…Continue Reading Academic Journals 2/x: Choosing the Right Journal
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Academic Journals 1/x: How Things Work
The process of submitting to and hopefully being published in an academic journal can be opaque. Every journal has it’s own rules; different editors communicate (or don’t) differently; and the advice that you receive from different academic advisors might be vague or conflicting. If you’ve been given some hard and fast rules for how-to and…Continue Reading Academic Journals 1/x: How Things Work
Adapting Seminar Papers for Conferences or Publication
Although seminar papers are great places to start workshopping your arguments, they are often too parochial—too narrowly focused; too narrowly tailored to a specific reader—to submit to outside audiences. This handout will give you some suggestions for how to reconceptualize your work and adapt your existing papers for new audiences and venues. Pay particular attention…Continue Reading Adapting Seminar Papers for Conferences or Publication