Description
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide to writing journal articles addresses all the stages and recurring challenges, from targeting a journal to dealing with reviewer feedback. Drawing on many years of running âWriting for Publicationâ workshops, Murray explores not only style and structure but also behaviours and emotions. As a key component of both research courses and careers, this timely text also addresses the struggle to make time for high quality academic writing and how to ensure a writing-life balance.
Examining a variety of approaches, relevant to many different academic disciplines, this core text demystifies and defines writing practices and makes this form of high-stakes academic writing seem manageable.
Writing for journals has never been more competitive, and writers, researchers, practitioners and students need expert guidance on productive practices and ways of maintaining focus and motivation, which Murray provides. This latest edition is completely updated and mor
Table of Contents
1 Why write for academic journals?
2 Targeting a journal
3 Finding time to write
4 Finding a topic and developing an argument
5 Outlining
6 Drafting
7 Revising the draft
8 Dialogue and feedback
9 Responding to reviewers’ feedback
10 After publication
Conclusion
