Maximize your summer break and optimize your writing efforts by accessing the authoring resources available to you through your Text…
Taking humor seriously: How to use humor as a pedagogical tool
Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and founder of The Cartoon Bank, is one of the nation’s leading…
Featured Member Mike Kennamer – Insights on writing, project development and the value of developing a business structure
Mike Kennamer currently serves as Director of Workforce Development at Northeast Alabama Community College and is President/CEO of Kennamer Media…
TODAY! TAA Webinar: ‘Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing Your Academic Article But Were Afraid to Ask’
Join us Thursday, March 13, 5-6 p.m. EST, for the TAA webinar, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing Your Academic…
Bob Mankoff to keynote 2014 TAA Conference
Robert Mankoff, nationally renowned cartoon editor for The New Yorker, will be the keynote speaker at TAA’s 2014 Conference with…
Journal impact factors: To cite, or not to cite?
At a brainstorming session on academic publishing at TAA’s June 2012 conference, a participant asked how to determine the most prestigious journals in which to try to publish. The panel’s advice: study the journal impact factors.
An impact factor is widely regarded as a measure of the journal’s importance in the particular disciplines which it serves. A journal’s impact factor is a measure of the average frequency with which articles in a given journal’s publication year are cited in that and other journals during the subsequent two years. The rationale is, roughly, that the citation rate of articles in a given journal, compared with the rate of “competing” journals, gives a metrical measure of that journal’s perceived importance in the discipline. Seems simple enough, but perhaps not.