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Beware of spam email from predatory journal publishers
TAA member Laura Frost recently received an email from a journal soliciting a paper based on her 2014 TAA Conference…
TAA Professional Directory is growing! New editors, indexers, textbook illustrators & coaches
Find professionals specializing in textbook and academic writing in TAA’s Professional Directory. All offer discounts to TAA members of up to…
6 Do’s and don’ts of editing your dissertation
Picture this: You’ve just finished up the last paragraph of a section in your dissertation. Now comes the time to read over the whole chapter and edit it, even though you feel that you’ve been over it a million times, so maybe you’ll be fine without editing—right? Wrong. Editing your dissertation is one of the most important things you’ll do before submitting it and earning your doctorate, so here are some do’s and don’ts of editing your dissertation.
The ultimate resource guide for completing your dissertation
Are you looking for the ultimate resource guide for completing your dissertation?
Join TAA’s Dissertators United Chapter and gain access to the resources you need to improve your writing, enhance your productivity, and ultimately complete your dissertation. Our resource list includes links to how-to articles, websites, blogs, books and apps that focus on:
TAA Podcast – Millions of Articles, Thousands of Journals: How an Individual Scholarly Author Can Thrive in Today’s Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem
The changing scholarly publishing ecosystem provides new opportunities, and some perils, for scholarly authors. Listen to this session by Jeffrey Beall, “Millions of Articles, Thousands of Journals: How an Individual Scholarly Author Can Thrive in Today’s Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem,” recorded at the 2014 TAA Conference in Baltimore, MD, which addresses how authors can better expose, promote, and share their research to reach a larger audience and achieve greater impact.
Focusing on scholarly journals, it will update you on some of the problems associated with predatory publishing, such as research misconduct and the publication of pseudo-science. It will also help authors select publishers that provide greater added value to their work, such as basic copyediting and digital curation.