A Scholar’s Guide to Getting Published in English

Mary Jane Curry is Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Curriculum, Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester, New York, USA, where she also directs the Writing Support Services. She is co-editor of TESOL Quarterly's Brief Research Reports section and Multilingual Matters' series, Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation. Her research focuses on access to academic writing and knowledge production by scholars and students using English as an additional language.

This book aims to demystify the practices of scholarly publishing in English. It focuses on practices, institutions and politics rather than language and writing. Drawing on 10 years of research into academic publishing and writing practices, it provides a guide for readers to relate to their own contexts and situations as they consider publishing.

Introduction Chapter 1: Identifying your personal interests and commitments to publishing Chapter 2: Making sense of institutional evaluation criteria Chapter 3: Responding to different institutional pressures to publish Chapter 4: Entering academic 'conversations' - Finding out about scholarly conferences Chapter 5: Identifying the 'conversations' of academic journals Chapter 6: Joining academic 'conversations' in a competitive marketplace Chapter 7: Locating your work and forging 'conversations' - whose work to cite and why? Chapter 8: Publishing articles or book chapters? Chapter 9: Understanding trajectories and time in the publishing process Chapter 10: Accessing resources for writing for publication Chapter 11: Doing the work of writing in multiple languages Chapter 12: Participating in academic research networks Chapter 13: Collaborating on texts for publication Chapter 14: Getting help from literacy brokers Chapter 15: Communicating with publishing gatekeepers Chapter 16: Producing a journal: taking on reviewing and editing roles Chapter 17: Concluding thoughts - Critical choices and practical strategies for global scholarly publishing