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Tales for Change: Using Storytelling to Develop People and Organizations: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success
Author(s): Wendy Laura Belcher (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date: 21 Jan. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781412957014
- ISBN-13: 9781412957014
Book Description
"This book is a wonderful addition to a graduate course on professional writing, to a writers' group in need of some structure, or even to the lone writer who needs assistance becoming an academic writer."
Chronicle of Higher Education
Wendy Laura Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success isa 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.
Key Features
- Has a proven record of helping graduate students and professors get published: This workbook, developed over a decade of teaching scholarly writers in a range of disciplines at UCLA and around the world, has already helped hundreds to publish their articles in peer-reviewed journals.
- Demystifies the academic publishing process: This workbook is based on actual research about faculty productivity and peer review, students' writing triumphs and failures, as well as the author's experiences as a journal editor and award-winning author.
- Proceeds step by manageable step: Within the context of clear deadlines, the workbook provides the instruction, exercises, and structure needed to revise a classroom essay, conference paper, dissertation chapter, master's thesis, or unfinished draft into a journal article and send it to a suitable journal.
- Targets the biggest writing challenges: This workbook focuses squarely on the most difficult tasks facing scholarly writers, such as getting motivated, making an argument, and creating a logical whole.
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks can be used individually or in groups, and is particularly appropriate for graduate student professional development courses, junior faculty orientation workshops, post-doc groups, and journal article writing courses.
Wendy Laura Belcher is assistant professor of African literature at Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature and Center for African American Studies. She has taught journal article writing workshops in North America, Europe, and Africa.
Praise for Wendy Belcher and Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks
"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
"A useful text that will be an excellent resource for any writer attempting to publish their work."
Larry Chandler, Graduate Student
"Wendy Belcher's book is revolutionizing the way younger scholars perceive academic publishing and radically transforming their level of access to it (and consequently to the profession). It is by far the most readable or practical guide to academic writing on the market."
Beth Goodhue, UCLA
"Wendy's guidance has been a tremendous help to me, and the book is great for grad students, junior faculty, or anyone who wants to learn how to write and publish more effectively."
-Jake Dorman, The University of Kansas
"Your book struck such a nerve because there is a long chain of assumptions in academia that scholars should just know how to do certain things. The relief among faculty is palpable when I explain in groups that few of us -- even those who have been published in journals -- were ever taught properly. And although it helps everyone who cracks it, your book is especially a godsend for faculty from other cultures." -Carole Sargent, Georgetown University
"Thanks for your wonderful book!"
-Georgina Green, Graduate Student
"Absolutely LOVE the book!"
-Karra Bikson, Graduate Student
Editorial Reviews
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"Thorough, beautifully organized, and humane. This is a welcome light on a dark process." -- Kevin Peterson Published On: 2010-12-07
"Belcher′s book uses an interactive format to help writers develop a manuscript for submission from a pre-existing text such as a dissertation/thesis... When I used this book to teach writing for publication, doctorial students responded enthusiastically to the format and tone, which bolstered their confidence and enabled them to confront displacement activities." -- Mary Jane Curry
"While addressing the sometimes-unsearchable field of scholarly writing and publishing, Wendy Belcher uses unpretentious, contemporary, and even witty prose that is simultaneously captivating and informative." -- Grant Eckstein Published On: 2010-05-03
I liked the way that the book was structured. It offered a combination of practical advice and counseling about writing. I used if for an undergraduate course, and while it had some problems for this audience, I would certainly use it again as a text for a graduate course.
-- Benjamin Kohl ―
drupal Published On: 2010-04-25I am using it as a way to help my graduate students to experience success in submitting an article for publication. We are currently using the text and finding it very helpful. -- Dr Andrew Brimhall ―
drupal Published On: 2013-06-18Solid, well organized material. -- Dr Anita Welch ―
drupal Published On: 2011-03-22using with doctoral seminar -- Dr Annette Nelligan ―
drupal Published On: 2012-04-19good supplementary text for doctoral students aiming to publish research -- Dr Heather Duncan ―
drupal Published On: 2011-03-08Excellent book; not relevant to the course I′m teaching. -- Dr Heather McHale ―
drupal Published On: 2011-09-28Good step by step guides and templates. -- Dr John Christensen ―
drupal Published On: 2014-10-09This book was perfect for our graduate course, "Writing for Publication." Using this book, I have had two students who have successfully published articles. -- Dr Julie Couch ―
drupal Published On: 2013-10-20Title a litte misleading perhaps, but otherwise a good starter text for students considering publishing their rersearchh. -- Dr Linda Barlow-Meade ―
drupal Published On: 2015-02-12A great guide to help graduate students be very productive in a semester and some guidance for junior faculty as well...plus spurred me on to completion! -- Dr Linda Howe ―
drupal Published On: 2010-09-07The topic of the course I am teaching is advanced academic writing, and Belcher′s book presents a practical, step-by-step guide to academic writing. The author tackles many of the difficulties encountered during the writing process, and provides answers to most essentials questions pertaining to writing and publishing journal articles. -- Dr Natalia Nikolova ―
drupal Published On: 2013-09-23The book is well written, easy to follow all steps in order to prepare papers for publication. I would like to recommend it specially for graduate students, who have english as a second language. -- Dr Patricia Guimaraes ―
drupal Published On: 2014-10-21This text is excellent for assisting students and faculty to begin and progress in academic productivity. Belcher provides clear, succinct guidelines and examples. Students and new faculty will find this book very useful. -- Dr Paula Dawidowicz ―
drupal Published On: 2009-11-03A good book overall, more for personal use. Just not needed as a requirement for students for the courses I teach right now. -- Dr Sarah Becerra ―
drupal Published On: 2014-03-31For graduate students to use as they planned writing goals. -- Dr Steven Giles ―
drupal Published On: 2013-03-18To be used writing workshops for junior faculty who are in the tenure process and publication is a necessity. -- Dr Tawannah Allen ―
drupal Published On: 2012-12-27It doesn′t fit for business students. I am returning it. -- Esther Swilley ―
drupal Published On: 2010-04-06Belcher′s Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks is an excellent guide for polishing research and writing articles for submission to academic journals or other types of publications. It is a great resource for graduate students as they learn to think through their writing and make writing accessible to academics and specific audiences. -- Linda Rappel ―
drupal Published On: 2017-05-15I used this text on my Geo-Politics of Race. It was an essential tool for working with graduate students of how to turn research assignments into a paper for submission to a journal for review. I plan on using it again in the near future. -- Mr Elias Ortega-Aponte ―
drupal Published On: 2012-06-13Belcher′s book is extremely thorough and well organized; it provides a honest approach to a difficult process; it perfectly fits the semester schedule; and her clear, concise style makes it a pleasure to read. The book is a resource students will be able to use repeatedly for different projects as they build constructive writing habits. -- Mr Kevin Petersen ―
drupal Published On: 2010-10-01I will use this book for my course in order to assist my students in developing a publishable article. -- Professor Carlos Amador ―
drupal Published On: 2015-03-24Tried this out for master′s design students, but better suited to PhD or entry-level profs. -- Professor Matthew Gordy ―
drupal Published On: 2013-05-22Although I didn′t adopt this text for my course--it wasn′t a good fit--I strongly recommended to my department head and a colleague that we design a doctoral seminar around this text. Belcher provides an excellent framework, based on her many years of teaching a doctoral-level writing seminar, for introducing doctoral students to the scholarly-manuscript-creation process. I believe this text is unmatched for this purpose. -- Professor Michael Hyman ―
drupal Published On: 2010-02-12A great book for both motivating scholars and students and providing a practical strategy for getting writing down. -- Professor Shirley Hill ―
drupal Published On: 2013-12-19About the Author
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.
