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Academic Writing: A Discussion with Katherine Firth

November 02, 2022 • Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide

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Recorded in October 2019, A conversation between Jo VanEvery & Katherine Firth on the occasion of the publication of Jo's 4th Short Guide.

Learn more about the Short Guides here: https://jovanevery.co.uk/books

Katherine blogs at Research Degree Insiders researchinsiders.blog

Other things we referred to in this conversation include:

How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble: A Practical Guide by Inger Mewburn, Katherine Firth, and Shaun Lehmann (2019, Open University Press)
Writing For Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for getting published by Pat Thomson and Barbara Kamler (2013, Routledge)
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks by Wendy Laura Belcher (2nd edition, 2019, University of Chicago Press)
The list of reviews of journals that Wendy Belcher organises can be found here: https://journalreviews.princeton.edu/journals-reviewed/ and is only humanities and social sciences.
The article on originality in the humanities and social sciences is "What is Originality in the Humanities and the Social Sciences?" by Joshua Guetzkow, Michèle Lamont and Grégoire Mallard (2004) in American Sociological Review
Helen Kara's post about citing your friends, which we discuss, is here https://helenkara.com/2019/10/09/to-cite-or-not-to-cite-your-friends/
Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (2019, Vermillion or Random House)
Making the Implicit Explicit by Barbara Lovitts (2007, Stylus Publishing)

The text transcription of this conversation is available to read here: https://jovanevery.co.uk/academic-writing-publishing-discussion-katherine-firth/

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