JALT Writers' Peer Support Group

"An academic or scientific abstract should briefly and comprehensively summarise the contents of the paper it precedes. It should not contain information that is not present in the article and it should report, not evaluate, what can be found in the paper" (Abstract, ¶1, 2015.07.11).

"TESOL Press is currently accepting responses to calls as well as unsolicited manuscripts. More information and the proposal form can be found by clicking on the Read & Publish tab on the TESOL webpage and then clicking on Information for Authors."

This post contains links to Kindle and Epub versions of a free ebook.

Olson, Linda. (2014). On-screen proof-reading: A handbook for editors of academic and scientific articles. [n.p.]: eAcademia.

"This guide provides an overview of the process of preparing and submitting a scholarly manuscript for publication in a psychology journal. Drawing on the experiences of authors of scholarly writings, peer reviewers, and journal editors, we seek to demystify the publication process and to offer advice designed to improve a manuscript's prospects of publication. To exemplify the process, we describe specific publication procedures for journals of the American Psychological Association." (APA, 2010, p. 1)

This academic publisher's webpage covers "a number of resources available to support you through the writing and submission process" (How to get published: Writing your article for publication, ¶1, 2015.03.10). Resources include a brochure, a presentation, a two-part video, and a link to the publisher's entire catalog of journals for previews of submission guidelines.

In this August 2014 TESOL Connections article, Garton advocates systematic, principle-based practitioner research and, drawing upon the TESOL Research Agenda, suggests a variety of ways to begin.

"practical advice on planning, preparing and submitting articles for publication" (About this guide, p. 136)

In this post, Campbell (2014.08.02) follows-up on The genre of research articles (2012.04.01) with explanations and illustrations of essential elements of such articles.

"Grammar Choices is a different kind of grammar book: It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master's, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty" (Descriptions, ¶2, 2014.09.08).

This article is an extract from: Fechter, Sharon Ahern. (1999). Chapter 4, Academic research. In Virginia Bianco-Mathis & Neal Chalofsky (Eds.), The full-time faculty handbook ([n.p.]). London, UK: Sage Publications, Inc.

"The PhraseBook helps you build advanced language competence and writing ability in English. Rather than concentrating on rules and exceptions as many books, the PhraseBook focuses on writing, providing the tools for you to write in your subject" (A tool for building advanced language competence and writing ability, ¶1, 2014.09.12).

"The posting below looks at what makes for quality small-scale research and the reasons why such research can be important" (Folks, ¶1, 2014.09.18).

In this TESOL Blog post (2014.09.19), Elena Shvidko shared descriptions from websites of 11 journals carrying "articles related both to research in second language writing and writing pedagogy" (¶1, 2014.09.22). - See more at: http://blog.tesol.org/excellent-academic-journals-to-stay-up-to-date-in-el-writing/#sthash.RB7SItgV.dpuf

The Readings: Academic Writing section of this resource page includes over half a dozen books with links to Amazon.com listings of them.

"Patrick Dunleavy outlines seven upgrade strategies for a problematic article or chapter: Do one thing well. Flatten the structure. Say it once, say it right. Try paragraph re-planning. Make the motivation clearer. Strengthen the argument tokens. Improve the data and exhibits." (deck, 2014.12.19)

This London School of Economics and Political Science blog post provides "a structured set of suggestions for what an abstract should include, and what should be kept to a small presence" (¶1, retrieved 2014.12.22).

Olson, Linda. (2014). Guide to academic and scientific publication: How to get your writing published in scholarly journals. London, England: e-academia. Retrieved from http://www.proof-reading-services.org/guide/

For this blog post, Nellie Deutsch interviewed Steve Tuffill "to learn more about the history of peer review and how it has changed since its inception" (Peer review feedback has changed, ¶1, 2015.03.06).

"DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals" (deck, ¶1, 2015.03.09).