Biographie de l'auteur
Wendy Laura Belcher is an award-winning author, academic editor, international lecturer, and professor. She designed one of the first publication focused writing courses for graduate students and junior faculty in the nation, and for ten years has conducted such courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in research institutions around the world, including those in Norway, Malawi, Sudan, and Egypt. These popular workshops are based on her twenty years of experience as an academic editor, including eleven years managing an ethnic studies press and the peer-reviewed journal of record in the field, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, as well as her two master's degrees in the social sciences and a doctorate in the humanities. She is also a published nonfiction author, whose memoir about her childhood in Ethiopia and Ghana, Honey from the Lion: An African Journey, won a Washington State Governor's Writers Award and honorable mention in the Martha Albrand/PEN Society Award for first book of nonfiction. She is now an assistant professor of African literature in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies.
Présentation de l'éditeur
This book provides the instruction, exercises, deadlines, and structure needed to revise a classroom or conference paper into a journal article. Each week, readers learn a particular feature of strong academic writing-such as persuasive argument or clear structure-and work on revising their article accordingly. At the end of twelve weeks, they send their article to a journal. Instructors can use the book to facilitate writing workshops; scholars can use it individually to get an article ready for publication. Either way, the book helps graduate students and junior faculty to develop the habits of productivity that lead to confidence, overcome anxiety about academic publishing, and advance in their fields.
