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PRACTICAL TIPS FOR PUBLISHING SCHOLARLY ARTICLES Writing and Publishing in the Helping Professions Chapter 3: Writing as a Disciplined Practice

Updated list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers"

An updated list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals"

This Tomorrow's Prof. post provided "great advice on avoiding writer's block" (preface, ¶1).

How to give a scientific presentation by Kevin D. Lafferty (US Geological Survey, UC Santa Barbara) Though these guidelines (Lafferty, n.d.) focused on outlines, slides, text, and style for _scientific_ presentations, they include plenty of advice useful for other sorts of presentations as well.

"The title, abstract, and keywords play a pivotal role in the communication of research. Without them, most papers may never be read or even found by interested readers" (The title, abstract, and keywords: Why it is important to get them right, ¶1, 2014.01.23).

"Mendeley uses the latest technology to continually improve the product and deliver features that you need most." This chart compares Mendeley to Endnote, Papers, RefWorks, and Zotero.

"This is now an "Open" group. It collects published resources relating to academic writing and research -- including "how to" guides for academic writers (both students and faculty), as well as studies about/on the processes of research and of writing about research" (About this group, ¶1, 2014.01.16).

The TAA maintains this list collectively. Some information in it may not be up to date (Copyright 2010 as of 2014.01.16).

"The Hourglass: a dynamic organisational model" for essays, investigative reports, and narratives.

"Renandya, W. A. (2012). Choosing the right international journal in TESOL and applied linguistics: a guide for novice writers. Unpublished manuscript. Singapore: National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore."

"This study addresses reviewer development programs at 2 Asia-based English language teaching (ELT) journals which aim to raise awareness of peer review language. The focus of the analysis is on changes to review language through correspondence between mentor and mentee" (English abstract, ¶1).

A thorough account of an encounter with an unscrupulous publishing outfit

"The Student Center for Research, Writing, and Information Technology (RWIT) is a free service dedicated to helping members of the Dartmouth community develop more effective strategies for generating and organizing their ideas, finding and evaluating research sources, and presenting and revising compositions in a variety of media. "

In this post, Shirley Zhao points out a number of valuable resources for authors interested in publishing.

A budding collaborative endeavor in a Google workbook to locate, catalog, and assess resources for writers interested in academic publication

Anderson, Terry. (2013, May 24). A publishing primer for education grad students [blog post]. http://terrya.edublogs.org/2013/05/24/a-publishing-primer-for-education-grad-students/

Current list of subjects includes: "Medicine & Healthcare, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences & Humanities, Business & Management, Computer Science & Mathematics, Materials Engineering & Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Physics & Information, Technology" (sidebar, 2013.07.22)