Writing Lessons: Practicing What We Preach

Writing for Inside Higher Ed, "Junior Prof" suggests that we employ writing strategies that we teach: Work with your natural writing practice, not against it. Don't brag about how hard it is to write. Write in different genres. Full text of the essay is on line: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/06/20/faculty-should-apply-same-writing-instruction-they-give-students-their-own-work 

Increase Your Chances

Laura Moss, writing for Inside Higher Ed, offers "25 Ways to Increase Your Chances at Publication": https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/05/15/how-increase-your-chances-getting-your-work-published-scholarly-journal-opinion

Updated Review of Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist

We've all heard about the market in predatory online open-access journals, with specious review processes, murky editorial boards, and uncertain longevity. But where do you go to determine if a journal publisher (or conference organizer) qualifies as "predatory"? Cabell has for several years offered a scrutiny  and review service, which Rick Anderson revisists and reviews …

Making Time for Research & Writing

"A lot faculty struggle to find time to keep up on their research agendas during the semester.  Between meetings, teachings, and all of the other things that add up to a faculty member’s work life, time often gets away from us," Thomas Polk writes.  "So, how do we make time for our research and writing?" …

CFP: Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation

Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation – Convergence and Divergence of Translation across Epistemic and Cultural Boundaries Palgrave Communications (https://www.nature.com/palcomms/ ) the open access journal from Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature),  which publishes research across the humanities and social sciences, is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a research article collection (‘special issue’) on …

Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals

Owens, J. K. and Nicoll, L. H. (2019), Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. doi:10.1111/jnu.12475 Conclusions This study found a substantial level of plagiarism via duplicate publications in the three analyzed predatory journals, further diluting credible scientific literature and risking the ability to synthesize evidence accurately …

CFP: Breast Cancer Book Chapters

I’d like to connect with scholars who have an interest in potentially contributing to a book on breast cancer as it is experienced/understood in North America and the UK. I currently have a contract with British publishing house Peter Lang Oxford for a book tentatively entitled Breast Cancer Unbound.  This volume, scheduled for publication in 2020, is …

Guides for Reviewing Others’ Mss

One of the best ways of honing your skills as an academic or professional writer is to serve as an anonymous peer reviewer for others' manuscript submissions to journals. If you are new to this, there are several online guides: An online course in writing and reviewing for professional publications prepared by Patricia Gonce Morton, …

CFP Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities

CFP: International Medical Humanities Conference Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities The MSU Medical Humanities Program and ‘Waiting Times’ (a Wellcome Trust funded research project based at the University of Exeter and Birkbeck, University of London, UK) are pleased to announce an international conference on the theme of “Chronicity and Crisis” to be …

CFP: Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media

Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media  2019 Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University September 20–21, 2019          Grand Rapids, Michigan Co-organized by Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University), Julia B. Köhne (Humboldt University in Berlin), Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen) and Ville Kivimäki (University of Tampere, Finland). Sponsored by the Grand Valley State University …