Week 10: Getting Published

Orientation

Many educational institutions and some learned societies have online guides about how to get your research results published. They exact format will vary, but the basic design of writing a paper for publication is broadly similar for most subjects and some good self-help guides exist. There are several academic journals that encourage new and early career academics to publish, such as The Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice (just browse for the title). In whatever journal you choose, regardless of the area of academic specialism, the journal will have a Week on ‘Instructions for authors’ which you should read carefully before deciding to submit your article for publication. For other forms of publishing, it is worth considering one of the self-publishing software services such as Blurb https://www.blurb.co.uk and Lulu https://www.lulu.com . They have a slightly different approach to formatting a book, but both are easy to use and work experimenting with. There are also several instructional videos on self-publishing. 

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