Publish, Don't Perish: The Scholar's Guide to Academic Writing and Publishing

by Joseph Moxley

Overview

Publish, Don't Perish provides practical suggestions for conveiving, developing, marketing, and publishing scholarly documents. Written especially for faculty, graduate students, and professionals engaged in the business of scholarly publishing, this useful book offers concrete strategies for researching and publishing adademic manuscripts. Joseph M. Moxley, a widely published author and editor, presents working habits and attitudes that academicians can use to shatter writing blocks, develop original ideas, and improve as writers.

Throughout Publish, Don't Perish, Moxley illustrates how the generative nature of language empowers academicians to develop and publish original ideas. Because writing promotes thinking and creativity, Moxley argues that we should be concerned that only about 10 to 20 percent of faculty appear to be responsible for 90 percent of what's published. If we could engage more faculty in practical and theoretical scholarship, Moxley argues that we could hope for some solutions to the subtantive problems now confronting us as world citizens and educators. Moxley identifies the political and economic factors that impinge on what avademicians write and on what is published, critiquing the peer-review process, the star system,' the denigration of practical scholarship, and the adversarial view of scholarship and teaching. He outlines new policies that institutions, professional organizations and scholars can make to encourge more faculty to engage in scholarship, An appendix of information sources offers material for further reading on both writing and publishing as well as guides to publishing outlets for scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275944537
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/1992
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.46(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

JOSEPH M. MOXLEY is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition theory and related subjects and also conducts writing seminars for university faculty. The author of many scholarly articles and book chapters on aspects of writing, as well as published fiction and poetry, his books include Creative Writing in America: Theory and Pedagogy and a composition text, Eureka: Writers at Work. Moxley also has served in various editorial capacities on the Jourbanal of Advanced Composition, Technical Communication, and other academic jourbanals.

Table of Contents

Introduction
How to Get Started
What Writing Myths Intrude with Your Scholarship?
How to Develop Scholarly Projects
How to Draft and Organize Scholarly Projects
Guidelines for Developing a Writing and Research Notebook
How to Market and Submit Your Manuscripts
The Conventions of Academic Discourse
How to Write Informative Abstracts
How to Write Introductions and Conclusions
How to Shape Effective Paragraphs
How to Write Book Reviews
How to Write Quantitative Research Reports
How to Write Qualitative Research Reports and Literary Nonfiction
How to Compile an Anthology of Original Essays
How to Write Book Proposals
How to Write Proposals for Grants
How to Document Sources, Observe Copyright and Provide Acknowledgments
How to Revise and Edit Your Work
How to Attack Your Manuscripts Like an Editor or Reviewer
How to Edit Documents Like a Copy Editor
Current Issues and Emerging Possibilities
Where Can We Go from Here?
Appendixes
Index

Editorial Reviews

Moxley (English, U. of South Florida) actually thinks more highly of academic publishing than his title suggests. Drawing from his writing seminars, he offers guidance to faculty members on conceiving, developing, and publishing scholarly books and journal articles. He considers the composition process, various types of writing, abstracts, proposals, editorial standards, political and economic factors, and how institutions can encourage scholarly writing and publishing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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