The guidelines offer suggestions for departments, institutions, and faculty members in languages and literatures for valuing and assessing research in the public humanities. Because much public humanities scholarship involves engagement with communities, particularly bilingual and multilingual communities, this document places particular emphasis…

The author presents recommendations for writing case studies for publication in the "Journal of College Counseling." Recommendations fall into 2 categories: (a) ethical considerations and (b) criteria essential to methodological rigor (e.g., Hyett, Kenny, & Dickson-Swift, 2014). The article is intended to guide and encourage…

Although self-publishing designed to enhance student understanding is important to promote learning objectives and can contribute to the field of knowledge, self-publishing without peer review is generally not acceptable for promotion and tenure purposes. However, there is a growing trend that recognizes the use of self-published items to help…

Addresses four common barriers to academic writing and publishing: identifying appropriate journals that might publish one's work; making time to write; organizing information and the writing process; and continuing productive writing while waiting to hear from a journal, and learning from rejection. (SV)

The "do's and don'ts" for submitting articles to regional versus national journals are much the same, according to one journal editor. Do not just print a copy of a conference paper and send it to an editor. First, look up back issues of the journal to see if the paper would be appropriate for the journal. Do submit a paper to only one…

Guidelines for college faculty considering scholarly publication are offered including dealing with time constraints; selecting a journal; determining desired styles; determining dangers of multiple submissions; understanding the refereeing process; and retaining copyright. (DB)

Presents teachers with seven suggestions for the kinds of professional articles that could be written for other teachers. (RS)

Suggests how two-year college teachers can find the time for professional writing, what kinds of articles they can write and publish, and how they can get the writing done. (SR)

Presents two cases that illustrate some of the issues regularly faced by business communication educators: publications and conference presentations and consulting. Notes that each of the cases is followed by a series of specific questions addressing ethical issues raised in the cases. (RS)

Suggests, in the context of the author's publishing failures and successes, ways to cope with the fact that judgment and rejection are part of academic publishing. (SR)

Examines factors affecting publishing outcomes. Suggests prescriptions for overcoming factors inhibiting the successful completion of the publishing process within the discipline of communication. Devotes specific attention to motivational, analytic, and content variables likely to affect publishing outcomes positively. (RS)

Directed at junior law faculty, describes pervasive variables affecting the acceptance of their scholarship within tenure decisions and poses strategic questions to help them in decisions about their scholarship. Seeks to promote a better understanding of the "expectations, ethics, and etherealness" of tenure scholarship. (EV)

Offers strategies to help educators get their book ideas, teaching tips, and feature articles into print. Teacher-authors and journal editors explain what to do before writing, how to start writing, how to send query letters, how to propose book ideas to a publisher, and how to submit manuscripts. (SM)

Intended to provide guidance in academic publishing to faculty members, especially younger faculty members, this handbook is a compilation of four previously published essays by different authors. Following a preface and an introduction, the four essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "One Writer's Secrets" (Donald M. Murray); (2)…

A model for the systematic assessment of the performance of college faculty members developed from work at Washington State University and the University of Nevada is presented. Matrices for scoring performance, activities, and achievements in the areas of teaching, scholarly activities, and service are provided. An illustrative scoring protocol…