Reflections on Ten Years of Teaching Writing for Publication to Graduate Students and Junior Faculty

Abstract

This article reports on the origins, pedagogy, structure, and limitations of a writing workshop the author devised for graduate students and faculty to aid them in publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals. Started in 1998, the ten-week seminar-style course provided participants the instruction, exercises, structure, and deadlines needed to perform a rigorous revision of an article and actually submit that article for publication by the end of the course. The author found that teaching the course helped her as much as it helped the students.