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Getting Motivated

You can be “politely persistent” until they give you the answer, feedback or mentoring you need.
                                             -Dora Farkas 

Writing Your Thesis on Time
(A Pattern Oriented Approach)

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Daniel Ratiu, et al (Technische Universität München)
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Presentation (32 Slides)

Beating Writer's Block and Writing Your Dissertation

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James Hayton (6 minutes)
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James Hayton (68 minutes)
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James Hayton (Nottingham)
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Realize it's Not Impossible . . .

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Andy Stapleton (UTech Sydney)

Writing Your Thesis (and related articles) 

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How to Get it Done

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Beth Fischer and Michael Zigmond (Pitt)
20  Steps to Writing Up Your Research

How to Write a Good Scientific Paper (109 pages)

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Chris A. Mack (Texas)
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Useful Advice that Works for Many Empirical Fields

Research Model Builder

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Ben Ellway (Canberra)
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Ben Ellway (Canberra)

Useful Tweets for Getting Research Finished

Writing a Journal Article Draft

25 Ways to Increase Your Chance of Getting Published

 Before Submission 
​No. 1. Follow submission guidelines. 
No. 2. This paper has too many typos and grammatical errors to be reviewed
No. 3. Peer review is not problem solving. 
No. 4. Do you know the audience of the journal? 
No. 5. Sharpen your abstract. 

The Article Itself
No. 6. How would you assess this article? 
No. 7. Who cares? 
No. 8. You need to hook the reader. 
No. 9. The logic of organization in this article is unclear. 
No. 10. Who are you writing for? 
No. 11. Who are you in conversation with? 
No. 12. Clarify your citational practices. 
No. 13. Stop putting other people’s voices ahead of your own, 
No. 14. Reader A wants more critical engagement with existing scholarship on X. 
No. 15. Make room for analytical engagement with quoted material. 
No. 16. Avoid theme spotting. 
No. 17. This paper is overly ambitious. 
No. 18. What do you want your reader to remember the most? 

After the Report 
No. 19. We won’t be moving forward with your article. 
No. 20. Both readers have given you detailed and careful feedback. 
No. 21. You can request your article not go back to Reader B upon resubmission. 
No. 22. Take the readers’ reports as advice. 
No. 23. Let me know what you’ve done. 
No. 24. Why didn’t you read the peer reviewers' recommendations? 
No. 25. Onward! . 
My paper got rejected! What now?Summarized and edited from Moss's 5-15-19 column published in Inside Higher Ed



​Elsevier's  Guide to Getting Your Research Published (31 pages)
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