The Australian Association of Writing Programs

Readings

• Putting Refereeing into Context
• Peer Reviewing: Privilege and Responsibility

Workshop Details

This workshop on editing and publishing an academic journal is designed for early career researchers and graduate students so they can

• (a) know how the academic publishing process works from a writer's point of view; and
• (b) develop editorial skills for becoming editors themselves.

The online, asynchronous workshop will run from 20 - 26 September 2009.

Facilitator: Associate Professor Nigel Krauth, co-editor of TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses.

Topics include practical processes of:

• a. The academic journal's relationship to its discipline
• b. Calling for papers
• c. Responding to queries
• d. Receiving and archiving (managing) submission manuscripts
• e. The role of the peer review/refereeing process
• f. Finding and managing referees - including dealing with wildly disparate reports
• g. Anonymity
• h. Editorial integrity
• i. Dealing with authors after peer review
• j. Editing the rewritten manuscript
• k. Styles and formats
• l. Cautions about the world of academic publishing
• m. And more!