Productivity and Publishing

Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, PhD, is associate professor of literacy and urban education at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, where she also serves as Director of the LSU Writing Project and Coordinator of the Elementary Grades Teacher Education Program. Her research agenda is focused on literacy in urban settings, specifically the complexities of literacy leadership in charter schools, providing access to literature, writing, and the arts, and service-learning as a pathway to preparing pre-service teachers to teach literacy authentically in urban environs. She can be reached at sdowell@lsu.edu.  

Chapter 1: Introduction: Getting Started with Your Writing
Chapter 2: Setting Goals and a Submission Schedule for Your Academic Writing
Chapter 3: Avoiding the Blank Page: Starting from What You Know
Chapter 4: Writing the Journal Article Step-by-Step
Chapter 5: Selecting an Appropriate Publishing Outlet
Chapter 6: An Editor’s Perspective on Submitting Your Manuscript (Invited Submission, Renée M. Casbergue, PhD & Professor Emeritus)
Chapter 7: Working with and From Manuscript Reviews: Revising and Resubmitting your Manuscript
Chapter 8: Beyond Impact Factor: Understanding Scholarly Metrics and Increasing Exposure (Invited Submission, Andrea Hebert & David Dunaway)
Chapter 9: Considerations for Productive Collaborative Relationships for Writing
Chapter 10: Leveraging Your Scholarship: Lagniappe Considerations
Chapter 11: Next Steps: Conclusion
Appendix: Additional Productivity and Publishing Activities