JALT Writers' Peer Support Group

"How do you make sense of the quality of resources and evaluate their authority and appropriateness for your research?" This library guide advocates careful evaluation of the suitability, authority, and other indicators of resource quality, and provides pointers to a number of reference works and related websites.

"This post is meant to share some of my more-enlightening misadventures with stasis, destabilization, and resolution in hope that they will help writers, consultants, and teachers use the three moves more intentionally" (¶1, retrieved 2017.01.27).

"Writing Across Borders is a film for anyone who works with international students in a writing environment" (Details, ¶1, 2017.03.07).

"This edited book will try to cover the main issues in language learning and teaching based on technology tools and programs. The publication addresses the application and implementation of research methodologies within English language classrooms in different cultures around the world. The main focus of this book will be on review, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies which meet the needs of applied linguists, CALL/TELL researchers, language teachers, and TEFL/TESOL/Linguistics graduate and post-graduate students. "

In this article, Spearie (2017) outlined a "process to familiarize students with the conventions of literature reviews, to help them analyze their own research to find the appropriate organizational style, and finally to enable them to write their own literature reviews" (¶2, 2017.08.04). The article and appendices are available as a PDF. Reference Spearie, Jen. (2017). Teaching literature reviews to EAP students. _TESOL Connections_ (August 2017). http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2017-08-01/2.html

Recap. of TESOL 2017 session by Linda Butler and Jennifer Lebedev, with links to related articles and publishers' guidelines

An extensive list of journals with current deadlines for submission (unless ongoing)

"This is an archive copy of the latest edition of Beall's list before it went dark. As scholarly publishing moves quickly, this static list will lose relevancy over time" (retrieved 2017.11.09).

General guidance for selecting journals for academic publication

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Stone argues for making publicly-funded research readily available to the public.

This excerpt from The Scientist (2018 February) concludes with five Tips for Reviewers.

databases EBSCOhost permalink research searches sharing YouTube

"[T]he following approach can help you prove your editing prowess" (¶3, retrieved 2017.01.20).

"A reference to a YouTube *channel* follows the usual who (YouTube username), when (date), what (title), and where (URL) format" (¶1, 2017.01.19 [emphasis added]).

"In many ways writing and creating your own book is the easy part of self-publishing. The really difficult part comes when you start trying to sell it. This is especially difficult for many writers. We are writers not marketing specialists ...." (Peachey, 2015).