Writing for Scholarly Publication

Anne Sigismund Huff

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN:
  9780761918059
  9780761918042
• eBook ISBN:
  9781544302898
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Research in Education

Academic writing has its own ground rules and its own creativity. In this practical guide for students and scholars, the author takes the reader step-by-step through the entire writing and publication process-from choosing a subject, developing content that will engage others, to submitting the final manuscript for publication. The underlying premise of the book is that scholarship depends on interaction with other scholars and that following the rules of good conversation (when writing) results in a greater likelihood of successful publication. Anne Sigismund Huff shows scholars how to improve their skills by selecting the right written works to examine and how to focus the questions asked and influence the way they are answered. This book is filled with exercises, helpful checklists, exemplars, and advice drawn from personal (sometimes painful) experience. A number of useful appendixes, include alternative view from Mary Jo Hatch, a conversation on writing in English by non-native speakers, a "reviewing checklist" to assess the overall quality of a scholarly paper or manuscript, a summary of all the writing exercises, an advice summary, and an annotated bibliography.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I Background
• Chapter 1 Writing as Conversation
• Chapter 2 Managing Scholarship
• Part II Before Writing Begins: Choices that Make Publication more Likely
• Chapter 3 Choosing a Topic
• Chapter 4 Identifying Conversants
• Chapter 5 Using Exemplars
• Part III Basic Components of Scholarly Writing
• Chapter 6 Title and Abstract
• Chapter 7 Making an Outline (Really!)
• Chapter 8 Introduction and Conclusion
• Chapter 9 Presentation
• Chapter 10 Body of the Paper/First Full Draft
• Chapter 11 Revision, Submission, Revision, and Publication
• Appendix A A Contrarian Conversation with Mary Jo Hatch
• Appendix B A Conversation on Writing in English by Non-Native Speakers with Jone Pearce
• Appendix C Reviewing Checklist
• Appendix D Exercise Summary/Semester Course Outline
• Appendix E Advice Summary
• Annotated Bibliography
• About the Author