Record Detail Back
Writing for Scholarly Journals
- Share to:
Postgraduates today, at least in the UK, experience increasing pressure to publish in scholarly journals earlier than at any previous time. Most postgraduates are well aware of the competitiveness of the job market in and out of academia and, within the academy, publications are the dominant currency of employability. In the present context this is illustrated not least by the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise 2007 (see chapter 5), where higher education institutions are assessed and money allocated to them on the basis of their scholarly, peer-reviewed publications. Aside from the obvious market pressures, there are many other and perhaps more traditional reasons for scholars to publish. These might be peer recognition, the ethical and professional compulsion to communicate one’s research (McGrail, 2006) or the desire to make a contribution and move knowledge on. Taken together, these pressures and motivations amount to a pervasive culture of scholarly publishing, which is almost impossible for a postgraduate student to avoid if they have a serious and realistic desire to establish an academic career.
Daniel. P. J. Soule, Lucy Whiteley, and Shona McIntosh - Personal Name
9780-8526-1827-1
NONE
Social Science
English
2007
1-51
LOADING LIST...
LOADING LIST...