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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Using This Workbook | |
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| Goals of the workbook | |
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| History of the workbook | |
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| Philosophy of the workbook | |
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| Pedagogy of the workbook. | |
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| General instructions | |
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| Using the workbook according to your temperament, discipline, or career stage | |
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| Using the workbook by yourself, with a writing partner, in a writing group, with coauthors, or to teach a class | |
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| Feedback to the author. | |
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| Designing Your Plan for Writing | |
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| Instruction: Understanding feelings about writing | |
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| Keys to positive writing experiences | |
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| Designing a plan for submitting your article in twelve weeks. | |
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| Exercises: Selecting a paper for revision | |
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| Choosing your writing site | |
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| Designing your writing schedule | |
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| Anticipating and overturning writing obstacles. | |
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| Starting Your Article | |
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| Instruction: Types of academic articles | |
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| Myths about publishable journal articles | |
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| What gets published and why | |
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| Abstracts as a tool for success | |
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| Getting started on your article revision. | |
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| Exercises: Hammering out your topic | |
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| Rereading your paper | |
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| Drafting your abstract | |
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| Reading a model article | |
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| Revising your abstract. | |
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| Advancing Your Argument | |
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| Instruction: Common reasons why journals reject articles | |
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| Main reason journal articles are rejected: no argument | |
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| Making a good argument | |
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| Organizing your article around your argument | |
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| Exercises: Drafting your argument | |
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| Reviewing your article for an argument | |
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| Revising your article around your argument | |
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| Selecting a Journal | |
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| Instruction: Good news about journals | |
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| The importance of picking the right journal | |
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| Types of academic journals: nonrecommended, questionable, and preferred | |
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| Finding suitable academic journals | |
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| Exercises: Searching for journals | |
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| Evaluating academic journals | |
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| Matching your article to suitable journals | |
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| Reading relevant journals | |
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| Writing a query letter to editors | |
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| Making a final decision about which journal | |
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| Reviewing the Related Literature | |
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| Instruction: Reading the scholarly literature | |
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| Types of scholarly literature | |
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| Strategies for getting reading done | |
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| Identifying your relationship to the related literature | |
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| Avoiding plagiarism | |
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| Writing about others' research. | |
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| Exercises: Evaluating your current citations | |
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| Identifying and reading the related literature | |
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| Evaluating the related literature | |
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| Writing or revising your related literature review. | |
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| Strengthening Your Structure | |
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| Instruction: On the importance of structure | |
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| Types of structures | |
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| Article structures in the social sciences and humanities | |
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| Solving structural problems | |
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| Revising for structure. | |
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| Exercises: Outlining a model article | |
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| Outlining your article | |
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| Restructuring your article. | |
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| Presenting Your Evidence | |
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| Instruction: Types of evidence | |
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| Writing up evidence in the social sciences | |
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| Writing up evidence in the humanities | |
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| Revising your evidence. | |
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| Exercises: Discussing evidence in your field | |
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| Revisiting your evidence | |
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| Shaping your evidence around your argument. | |
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| Opening and Concluding Your Article | |
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| Instruction: On the importance of openings | |
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| Revising your opening and conclusion. | |
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| Exercises: Revising your title | |
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| Revising your introduction | |
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| Revisiting your abstract, related literature review, and author order | |
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| Revising your conclusion. | |
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| Giving, Getting, and Using Others' Feedback | |
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| Instruction: Types of feedback | |
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| Exchanging your articles. | |
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| Exercises: Sharing your article and getting feedback | |
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| Making a list of remaining tasks | |
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| Revising your article according to feedback. | |
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| Editing Your Sentences | |
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| Instruction: On taking the time | |
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| Types of revising | |
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| The rules of editing | |
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| The Belcher diagnostic test | |
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| Editing your article. | |
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| Exercises: Running the Belcher diagnostic test | |
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| Revising your article with the diagnostic test | |
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| Correcting other types of problem sentences. | |
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| Wrapping Up Your Article | |
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| Instruction: On the perils of perfection | |
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| Finalizing your article. | |
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| Exercises: Finalizing your argument, related literature review, introduction, evidence, structure, and conclusion. | |
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| Sending Your Article! | |
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| Instruction: On the importance of finishing | |
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| Getting the submission ready. | |
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| Exercises: Writing the cover letter | |
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| Preparing illustrations | |
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| Putting your article into the journal's style | |
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| Preparing the final print or electronic version | |
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| Send and celebrate! | |
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| Week X: Responding to Journal Decisions | |
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| Instruction: An exhortation | |
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| Waiting for the journal's decision | |
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| Reading the journal's decision | |
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| Types of journal decisions | |
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| Responding to journal decisions. | |
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| Exercises: Evaluating and responding to the journal decision | |
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| Planning your revision | |
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| Revising your article | |
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| Drafting your revision cover letter | |
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| Requesting permissions | |
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| On the importance of persevering. | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |