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SLATE/LING Professional Development Workshop – Publishing in SLA Melissa Bowles Tania Ionin April 12, 2017 1 Before we begin… What words/phrases come to mind when you think of the prospect of academic publishing or writing a journal article? Compare with someone seated beside you. Are these words and the feelings or emotions they conjure positive, negative, or a mix of both? 2 Now for another question… When in your graduate career should you publish and why? 3 “For most graduate students and faculty members, nothing will be more important to success in obtaining jobs, promotions, or a sense of well-being than producing prose for publication. Likewise, nothing is more inclined to induce a wave of anxiety and belatedness in scholars than the thought of producing prose for publication. Unfortunately, graduate education and the publishing world itself offer little effective instruction, feedback, or encouragement on how to get academic writing published. When it comes to academic writing today, its rather like Freuds analysis of sex in nineteenth-century Vienna--everybody does it, but nobody talks about it…This causes a largely natural act like writing to become dysfunctional--for instance, the procrastination-binge cycle of most academic writers or the endless waiting for a sufficiently large block of uninterrupted time or the belief that writing is a solitary activity. The great secret of academia is that writing dysfunction is the norm rather than the exception.” (Belcher, 2009, Introduction) 4 In this workshop we want to demystify the journal submission and peer review process and also start you on a productive path to revising your own manuscript for submission to a journal. You will leave today with an understanding of the review process and having selected a text you have previously written to rework for publication. (We’ll also set you up with the next steps to follow.) 5 Outline Turning research into publications The journal submission process The peer revi