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1/ [Thread] I review a lot of manuscripts that are academically 'thin'. Often well-written if they were a long essay, they lack the depth of research you'd expect from a journal submission. In Gulf history, this has been made worse I think by the.. #AcademicChatter
2/ availability of digital archives such as the India Office Records. Don't get me wrong, this digitization is a wonderful thing, but some scholars are going to source documents and cherry picking information without taking the time to do secondary reading or substantive
3/ delving into documents. This leads to analytical problems, misleading conclusions, and jarring assertions of cause and effect. It seems obvious, but if you're going to write about history, or political science, or media, you must be familiar with the country-specific
4/ literature when it is a) obviously relevant b) when not that much extant literature actually exists. - fin #AcademicChatter
