This bundle brings together 2 Short Guides to help you navigate publishing your scholarly research: Scholarly Publishing and Peer Review. In Scholarly Publishing, I explain the relationship between the primary purpose of publishing as a way of communicating your research and the ways publications are used in processes that evaluate you as a scholar. The various publishing choices are explained to help you make decisions about what's best in your specific circumst...

This bundle brings together 2 Short Guides to help you establish a writing practice: The Scholarly Writing Process and Finding Time for your Scholarly Writing. The Scholarly Writing Process helps you understand how the purpose of your writing changes as you move from idea to publication. There are questions and reflection prompts for every stage to help you figure out why you're stuck and how to get your project moving again. Finding Time for your Scholarly W...

Peer Review (A Short Guide) provides practical advice for authors and reviewers engaging with the peer review process in scholarly publishing. Despite valid criticisms of peer review as a system, it is crucial to the advancement of knowledge and the protection of academic freedom. Participating in peer review – as an author, a reviewer, a member of an editorial board, or an editor – ensures your scholarly peers' values play an important role in publishing decisions. Done well, pee...

Getting stuck is a normal part of the writing process, even for experienced writers. My aim in publishing this Short Guide is to help you generate new writing projects, keep your writing projects moving forward, and ensure that your writing process results in publications.A Short Guide to the Scholarly Writing Process focuses on writing as a process, from your initial curiosity about a topic or question, through the development of arguments, the identification of potential readers,...

Finding Time for your Scholarly Writing addresses the problem of juggling writing alongside your other responsibilities. I identify three kinds of time: full days, longish sessions, and short snatches. In this Short Guide, I explain what kinds of writing you can do in each, and suggest ways of combining the three to ensure that you make the best use of the time available at different points in the academic year.Volume 2 of the Short Guides Series. See Volume 1, The Scholarly Writin...

The third volume in the Short Guides series, Scholarly Publishing focuses on the big picture of publishing for scholarly audiences: Why publish for scholarly readers at all? What are your options? How are different options regarded in the evaluation processes that affect your career? What difference do different options make for potential readers? The opening chapter clarifies the relationship between scholarly publishing as a means of communicating with other scholars to advance k...