Scholar's Guide to Getting Published in English

Mary Jane Curry is Associate Professor in Language Education at the University of Rochester, USA, and Theresa Lillis is Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics, at the Open University, UK. They have both published widely, including Lillis and Curry 'Academic Writing in a Global Context: The Politics and Practices of Publishing in English' (Routledge, 2010).

This guide comes as a most welcome and useful complement to the majority of linguistic and rhetorical guides to writing for scholarly publication in that it focuses on helping scholars explore, identify and understand the social practices, politics, networks and resources involved in academic publishing.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Identifying your Personal Interests and Commitments to PublishingChapter 2: Making Sense of Institutional Evaluation CriteriaChapter 3: Responding to Different Institutional Pressures to PublishChapter 4: Entering Academic 'Conversations'—Finding Out about Scholarly ConferencesChapter 5: Identifying the 'Conversations' of Academic JournalsChapter 6: Joining Academic 'Conversations' in a Competitive MarketplaceChapter 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 ProcessChapter 10: Accessing Resources for Writing for PublicationChapter 11: Doing the Work of Writing in Multiple LanguagesChapter 12: Participating in Academic Research NetworksChapter 13: Collaborating on Texts for PublicationChapter 14: Getting Help from Literacy BrokersChapter 15: Communicating with Publishing GatekeepersChapter 16: Producing a Journal: Taking on Reviewing and Editing RolesChapter 17: Concluding Thoughts— Critical Choices and Practical Strategies for Global Scholarly Publishing