Writing for Professional Publication in National Refereed Journals by William Allan Kritsonis, PhD

1. Writing for Professional Publication in National
Refereed Journals
Lecturing Tour
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, January 6, 2011 (Thursday)
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), January 7, 2011 (Friday)
California State University at Los Angeles, January 8, 2011 (Saturday)
San Diego State University, January 10, 2011 (Monday)
University of San Diego, January 11, 2011 (Tuesday)
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
Editor-in-Chief and Founder
National FORUM Journals (Since 1983)
Over 5,200 Professors Published
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1. Professional reasons for writing for publication
2. Personal reasons for writing for publication
3. How real writers behave
4. Writer’s write for the following reasons
5. How to get started
6. What will “sell” the editor on your work?
7. Formula: Brilliant Ideas + Good Luck + Knowing the Right People =
Publication
8. On scholarly work
9. Reasons to write and publish journal articles
10. Writing and publishing journal articles enables you to…
11. Three basic types of articles: practical – review or theoretical – research
12. Quantitative Studies
13. Qualitative Research
14. On writing books
15. Four phases of book publishing (Fun – Drudgery – Torture – Waiting)
16. Some reasons to write a book
17. Where does the dollar go after a book is published?
18. What do editors and reviewers really want?
19. Earning approval from editors and reviewers
20. What to remember about bad writing
21. How to get fired as a reviewer
22. Publish or perish or teach or impeach
23. I’ve been rejected many times – should I give up?

2. 24. In writing, how you read is important
25. How teachable is writing?
26. “I can’t seem to tell how my writing is going while I am doing it. Can
you help?
27. Remember your purpose in writing
28. What differentiates ordinary writing from writing with style
29. It must get somewhat easier to write, otherwise, how would some
authors become so prolific?
30. If writing for publication does not prove to be lucrative, why bother?
31. Why creative work is worthwhile
32. Show respect for your writing. It is about what the readers should
know. If this puts a strain on a professional relationship, then so be it.
33. “Why I Write” (Orwell) Sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical
impulse, and political purpose.
34. What really makes an academic write?
35. The Writer’s Essential Tools – words and the power to face unpleasant
facts.
36. No human activity can sap the strength from body and life from spirit
as much as writing in which one doesn’t believe.
37. “Because it was there.” Edmund Hillary. And with this comment he
supplied generations with a ready-made and unanswerable defense for
any new undertaking even writing.
38. Why we write.
39. Climbing Your Own Mountain
40. Be yourself. Have fun writing.
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