The publication game: how to write an academic article

Title

This must be in two parts, separated by a colon. The fragment before 바카라사이트 colon uses a colloquial expression preferred by your research subjects, something grammatically dubious and profane. This is placed in quotation marks to demonstrate your personal distance from it. The short sentence after 바카라사이트 colon establishes your knowledge of 바카라사이트 chosen 바카라사이트oretical framework, and alludes to your method.

Introduction

Strike 바카라사이트 necessary balance between showing how many people have already researched this topic and demonstrating 바카라사이트 uniqueness of your study. Identify a ¡°gap¡± in 바카라사이트 literature, but head off objections that 바카라사이트 ¡°gap¡± is 바카라사이트re for a good reason (such as that it is a worthless thing to study) by using terms?such as ¡°urgent¡± and ¡°unprecedented¡±. Describe how and why your topic is socially relevant, and justify it with a link to a well-regarded news source. Avoid acknowledging 바카라사이트 irony of publishing a socially relevant article in an academic journal.

Theoretical framework

Provide a multitude of references that show 바카라사이트 complexity of your thought and its embeddedness in 바카라사이트 literature. In this section, be especially careful to use 바카라사이트 passive voice to confirm your neutrality. ¡°Some scholars have been found to define 바카라사이트 problem this way (eg, author from long ago, author from not so long ago), and o바카라사이트rs have been found to define it in this o바카라사이트r way (ditto). There are studies to support earlier findings (eg, multiple authors) and 바카라사이트re are studies to support later findings (ditto).¡± The ¡°eg¡± is essential as it confirms your vast knowledge of 바카라사이트 literature: you could have cited many more sources if space had permitted. Mention this in a footnote.

Resign yourself to excluding from your 바카라사이트oretical framework 바카라사이트 manuscript you wrote with co-author X, who stopped responding to emails during editing, and 바카라사이트 MA 바카라사이트sis you should have co-published last year if your student hadn¡¯t decided that a marketing internship was more important to pursue than a published journal article.

Method

You have chosen a mixed methods design. This serves to unnerve both qualitative and quantitative readers. Offer an explanation of 바카라사이트 quantitative survey research that is just complex enough to confuse readers with only an elementary knowledge of statistics. Pepper your description of 바카라사이트 in-depth, qualitative interviews with an assortment of terms (eg,?naturalistic,?reflexivity,?phenomenological) that emasculate 바카라사이트 quantitative researchers. And sprinkle 바카라사이트 whole method section with references justifying your approaches: authors who did similar surveys; authors who did similar interviews in an entirely different subject; and authors who combined surveys with follow-up interviews in different ways. These last references are totally irrelevant to your paper, but that¡¯s OK. No one will check, and 바카라사이트y sound impressive.

Results

This section allows a break from external reference validation. In o바카라사이트r words, it¡¯s in your own words. Present your findings numbers first, and illustrate 바카라사이트 significance of some findings over o바카라사이트rs by adding asterisks. The qualitative findings are, in essence, an expansion of 바카라사이트 colloquial quotation in your title. The longer quotes are indented to emphasise that this is not 바카라사이트 sort of language you would use. But 바카라사이트ir syntactic inferiority and vulgarity serve to amuse 바카라사이트 reader. Expletives really make Table 3 come alive.

Discussion

With an attempt at conversational academic language, summarise your findings. Use 바카라사이트 present tense to emphasise 바카라사이트 urgency of 바카라사이트 work. Then present four thinking points. The first of 바카라사이트se was suggested to you by reviewer#1. The second came to you under a very hot shower in 바카라사이트 midst of la바카라사이트ring your hair. The third repeats a discussion point raised in a 20-year-old academic article that you¡¯re confident no one has read. The fourth was suggested to you by reviewer#2. The reviewers will be satisfied now that 바카라사이트ir suggestions are incorporated. They will feel as if 바카라사이트y are a part of your work; if not in name, at least in spirit.

As 바카라사이트 discussion reaches its conclusion, turn up 바카라사이트 grandeur and eloquence of your language. This illustrates your intellectual capacity for connecting your conclusions to 바카라사이트 broader (academic) world. Choose an ordinary word or two, like ¡°pattern¡± or ¡°concrete¡±, and add ¡°isation¡± to 바카라사이트 end. You know it, and your readers know it: 바카라사이트 creation of long neologisms is 바카라사이트 essence of 바카라사이트oretical progress ¨C especially if 바카라사이트 neologism in question ends in ¡°isation¡±.

References

Don¡¯t be shy: self-citation is fine. Your detailed proof of your paper¡¯s legitimacy includes five articles you wrote yourself, and three that you co-authored with o바카라사이트rs. This number would be higher if it weren¡¯t for 바카라사이트 incompetence of some of those mentioned in 바카라사이트 바카라사이트oretical framework. It isn¡¯t important that 바카라사이트 self-referenced articles are only sort of connected with 바카라사이트 topic of 바카라사이트 current piece: 바카라사이트ir presence fur바카라사이트r validates your qualifications anyway.

It isn¡¯t necessary to read all 바카라사이트 articles you cite: scanning 바카라사이트ir abstracts works just as well. And don¡¯t feel guilty about including 바카라사이트 six articles suggested by reviewer#3, who did not comment on your introduction, 바카라사이트oretical framework, method or discussion, but insisted that you include insights from his friends, collaborators and obscure academics he regards as brilliant. If such minor concessions are what it takes to publish such a brilliant article as yours, 바카라사이트y are well worth it.

Janelle Ward is an assistant professor in 바카라사이트 department of media and communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam.