Publishing for Tenure and Beyond - by Franklin Silverman (Paperback)

About the Book

Silverman provides graduate students who intend to pursue a career in academia and tenure-track junior faculty with candid information about developing an adequate publication record. The book also provides graduate students, tenured faculty, and others with information they need to maximize the likelihood of having their articles accepted for publication by peer-reviewed professional, scientific, and scholarly journals. The focus throughout is on how editorial boards and tenure committees tend to function rather than on how they are supposed to function. Anyone dealing with academic publishing will find this book an indispensable resource.

Topics dealt with include coping with the fear of writing for publication, options for scholarly publishing, identifying ideal publishing-for-tenure projects, understanding and coping successfully with peer review process, finding the time to write scholarly publications, and standards for writing and organizing scholarly articles for print and electronic journals. It also covers securing permission to include copyrighted material in your work that does not fall under the doctrine of fair use, submission strategies for getting articles published in academically-respectable journals, and gray area plagiarism and other breaches of academic ethics. It shows how to prepare the publication section of a promotion and tenure application. It offers advice on finding funding for beginning scholars and publishing options for surviving post-tenure reviews. Lastly, the book gives practical advice on coping with manuscript rejection.

Book Synopsis

Silverman provides graduate students who intend to pursue a career in academia and tenure-track junior faculty with candid information about developing an adequate publication record. The book also provides graduate students, tenured faculty, and others with information they need to maximize the likelihood of having their articles accepted for publication by peer-reviewed professional, scientific, and scholarly journals. The focus throughout is on how editorial boards and tenure committees tend to function rather than on how they are supposed to function. Anyone dealing with academic publishing will find this book an indispensable resource.

Topics dealt with include coping with the fear of writing for publication, options for scholarly publishing, identifying ideal publishing-for-tenure projects, understanding and coping successfully with peer review process, finding the time to write scholarly publications, and standards for writing and organizing scholarly articles for print and electronic journals. It also covers securing permission to include copyrighted material in your work that does not fall under the doctrine of fair use, submission strategies for getting articles published in academically-respectable journals, and gray area plagiarism and other breaches of academic ethics. It shows how to prepare the publication section of a promotion and tenure application. It offers advice on finding funding for beginning scholars and publishing options for surviving post-tenure reviews. Lastly, the book gives practical advice on coping with manuscript rejection.

Review Quotes

"Frank Silverman has created a suberb primer for graduate students and graduate students and junior faculty. Her tells how to get published--and tenured. His style is clear and direct. It's an easy read peppered with humor and asides drawn from 30 years in academia. After 10 books and 125 peer-reviewed articles, Silverman knows whereof he speaks."-Dr. John Vivian Professor of Journalism, Winona State University

"In writing this book, Dr. Silverman is, in a sense, mentoring the next generation of university professors, helping them to get a good start at research, writing, and grantmanship. Would I have been so lucky almost thirty years ago. This book should be read by doctoral students, by junior faculty, and by administrators and senior faculty who are asked to evaluate faculty publication records when making tenure recommendations."-Robert D. Moulton Associate Vice-President for Research and Dean of the College of Graduate Studies Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas

About the Author

FRANKLIN H. SILVERMAN is Professor of Speech Pathology at Marquette University and Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has written more than a dozen text or professional books including Authoring Books and Materials for Students, Academics, and Professionals (Praeger, 1998) and more than 125 articles in professional journals. He is a past president of the Text and Academic Authors Association and has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research.