Explanation points : publishing in rhetoric and composition / edited by John R. Gallagher and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss.

"A curated archive of disciplinary knowledge and best practices for publishing in rhetoric and composition. Covering a variety of topics in an approachable, conversational tone, that demonstrates how writing faculty from diverse sets of career trajectories and types of institutions can research and...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gallagher, John R., 1983- (Editor)
DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Louisville, Colorado : Utah State University Press, an imprint of Univeristy Press of Colorado, [2019]
Subjects:
Authorship.
Academic writing.
Scholarly publishing.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:xiii, 333 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Section 1: Getting started: inventing, brainstorming, and managing. Love, beauty, and truth: on finding a dissertation topic / Lynn Z. Bloom
  • Sit down and write, get up and move / Gesa E. Kirsch
  • Double dipping / Andrea Abernethy Lunsford
  • The importance of stories / Nancy G. Barron
  • Overcoming the clinandrium conundrum / Carrie Strand Tebeau
  • You can do that in rhetoric and composition / Byron Hawk
  • What's interesting? Originality and its discontents / John Trimbur
  • Start with what you know / Ashanka Kumari
  • Believe in yourself and in your ability to join public and scholarly conversations / Heidi A. McKee
  • Refine your rhetorical exigence / Naomi Silver
  • Be a content strategist / Michael J. Faris
  • Storyboarding your writing projects / Chris M. Anson
  • Invention and arrangement while driving: writing for the commute / Jim Ridolfo
  • Chip away / Cruz Medina
  • Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the research hour / Ellen Barton
  • Keeping with and thinking through: on maintaining a daily work log / Jody Shipka
  • Timing matters: focus on achievable tasks / Michael Baumann
  • A WPA/First-time mom's guide to producing the first book for tenure / Staci Perryman-Clark
  • Community writing: from classroom to workplace and back / Stephen A. Bernhardt
  • Not a draft but materials / Joseph Harris
  • You will not be able to stay home: quantitative research in writing studies / Norbert Elliot
  • Practicing WHIMSY / Jenn Fishman
  • Trust the process / Kathleen Blake Young
  • Section 2: Getting feedback: sharing drafts, collaborating, and (re)developing. Writing Is/as communal / Trixie G. Smith
  • Publishing as a PhD student by building knowledge across communities / Laura Gonzales
  • If you are going to collaborate: three considerations / Joan Mullin
  • From chapter to article with collaborative planning / Linda Flower
  • What's the way in? Some lessons and considerations about inventing as a collaborative team, from a collaborative team / Julie Lindquist and Bump Halbritter
  • Planning the perfect heist: on the importance of assembling a team of specialists in your writing group / Ben McCorkle
  • "Okay, your turn": a dialogue on collaboration and editing / Kyle D. Stedman and Courtney S. Danforth
  • Conference to publication pipeline: making work, work for you / Katie Manthey
  • Be open to feedback: separate yourself from your writing / Janice Cools
  • Embrace the opposition / Asao B. Inoue
  • To heed or not to heed: evaluating advice / Marcia Bost
  • Feedback from two sides / Amber Buck
  • The when of submitting and publication / John R. Gallagher and Danielle Nicole DeVoss
  • Section 3: Finding a foothold: identifying audiences, targeting presses, and situating scholarly fit. Be brave and be bold / Shirley Rose
  • Queer/ed research: disrupting the unending conversation / Jacqueline Rhodes
  • Remixing the dissertation / Jason Palmeri
  • Read the journals, then move the field / Kristine Blair
  • Listen for a while, then put in your o(a)r / David Blakesley
  • Locate first, invent second / William Duffy
  • Selecting a journal / Erin Jensen
  • It's all about fit: finding your particular publication / Kathryn comer
  • What's the payoff? / Marilyn M. Cooper
  • Achieving visibility through strategic publication / Christie Toth and Darin L. Jensen
  • U can haz fair use! / Timothy R. Amidon
  • Open or closed? Observations on open-access publishers / Mike Palmquist
  • Text/ Design/ Code: advice on developing and producing a scholarly webtext / Douglas Eyman
  • Speak to others as you would like them to speak to you / Craig Cotich
  • Read like a writer, write for your reader / Troy Hicks
  • Editing texts, editing careers / Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber
  • Creating a conversation in the field through editing / Mya Poe
  • Section 4: Getting (more and different types of) feedback: navigating reviewers and understanding editorial response. Coming to terms with the inevitability of epic failure; or, once more unto the breach / Ryan Skinnell
  • Rejection: it's not the las step / Heather Lettner-Rust
  • "I am recommending that the editor reject this submission" / Patrick Sullivan
  • Pester editors politely / James J. Brown Jr.
  • From editors with love... or maybe not so much! / Lilian W. Mina
  • What's the way forward? Some lessons and considerations about revising from feedback as a collaborative team, from a collaborative team / Bump Halbritter and Julie Lindquist
  • Don't take editorial advice- use it / Bruce Horner
  • Revise and resubmit! But how! / Sarah Kornfield
  • From resistance to revision: staging a response to a 'revise and resubmit" / Jessica Enoch
  • Prioritizing reviewer comments for a 'revise and resubmit" request / Gabriel Cutrufello
  • Managing reviewer and editorial feedback / Rebecca E. Burnett
  • Investigate, target, implement, persevere: understanding the academic publishing process through editors' eyes / Tara Lockhart, Brenda Glascott, Justin Lewis, Holly Middleton, Juli Parrish, and Chris Warnick
  • From fear to collaboration: working with academic journal/series editors / Steve Parks
  • Ruthless, fussy, alert: a quick guide to copyediting / Christina M. LaVecchia, Janine Morris, and Laura R. Micciche
  • After the acceptance / Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo
  • Section 5: Moving on. The ten-year plan / Laurie Gries
  • Aiming for after: doing time-consuming projects with a sense of an ending / Douglas Hess
  • Publishing is a beginning / Joyce Carter
  • Your book has arrived! Now what? / Kim Hensley Owens
  • Pursue meaningful projects: learn to keep learning / Ellen Cushman
  • Don't do anything you can't write about / Jeffrey T. Grabill
  • Conversational publications / Jeff Rice
  • It's never done: rethinking post-publication / Donna LeCourt
  • After the end / Sid Dobrin.