This is the second edition of Dr. @WendyLBelcher ‘s globally famous “Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks”.
My students and anybody who takes my writing workshops always let a “OH WOW” when I tell them Dr. Belcher is a good friend. Disclosures: I peer reviewed this book
What does "I peer reviewed this book" mean, exactly?
This means that @UChicagoPress approached me for my expertise in academic writing and asked me if I could review Dr. Belcher's draft of the second edition and suggest improvements and changes to make.
My institution, @FlacsoMx has published the Spanish language version of the FIRST edition (I'm going to speak to the editorial committee at FLACSO Mexico to see if we could have it translated and published in Spanish).
There are differences between the first and second editions
The first edition assumed you had a draft of a paper and needed help revising it.
The second edition takes through the process of actually doing the first draft, what Anne Lamott calls The Shitty First Draft.
The second edition improves substantially over the first one.
I was pleased to see my name alongside several other writing greats such as @tanyaboza@dr_rdr Patricia Morse and Jane Hindman.
After all, my job, whether with my students or with my colleagues, is to help them hone their craft and bring out the best of their scholarship.
Como estoy dando Métodos de Investigación este semestre y estoy generando mis Apuntes de Clase, voy a hacer un hilo sobre cómo producir un Esqueleto de un artículo científico (o de un capítulo de la tesis, o de un capítulo de libro).
Este método ya lo describí en mi blog.
Al considerar escribir un artículo, un capítulo de libro o una ponencia para conferencia debemos reconocer que existen diferentes formatos para producir textos científicos.
Yo provengo originalmente de la ingeniería química (aunque mi doctorado sea en dos ciencias sociales: geografía humana y ciencia política), y sigo leyendo literatura académica en el área de las ciencias naturales e ingeniería, por lo que estoy muy acostumbrado al modelo IMRAD.
Un grupo de estudiantes del Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de @FlacsoMx formaron un "Círculo de Estudio sobre Políticas Públicas" y me pidieron que les acompañara.
CLARO que en FLACSO México tenemos profesores y profesoras que imparten estos temas.
Pero me dió mucha ternura.
Porque como están en el primer semestre del Doctorado, quieren desde ya empezar a "darse un chapuzón" en la literatura sobre las ciencias de las políticas públicas (policy sciences).
Yo doy cursos sobre el tema, y los he dado en el CIDE, en UBC, en Sorbonne Nouvelle en París.
El objetivo de estos estudiantes al formar este Círculo de Estudio sobre Políticas Públicas es empezar a leer ANTES de empezar a tomar cursos formales en la FLACSO México sobre el tema. Entonces les dije que sí, y les sugerí alguna literatura y una estructura para su estudio.
You saw me tweeting about writing groups. I am part of two (though lately I have not been able to show up to @prof_mirya 's on Fridays 2-5pm because I am drowning in work and Fridays are particularly bad for me).
Let me let you in on a few secrets about writing groups.
As I told my research methods students, writing is social.
This thread will focus on how we (as supervising faculty) can help students navigate a maze of new literature. I am going to use several areas/fields I know well.
One of my Masters' students wants to focus on public policy implementation research.
This is a field I know relatively well, though I am not totally up on the literature (I'm more of a comparative public policy person). I know some of the foundational authors and a few works.
Anybody who knows me knows that I'm someone who eschews traditional "seminal works" approaches. I strongly believe we need to change the way in which we cite and include scholars in our syllabi, opening the field(s) to up-and-coming scholars and those traditionally at the margins
A instancia de mi colega @salazar_elena y de la gran @flaviafrei hice un verdadero esfuerzo serio para seleccionar textos en español.
Si diera el curso en inglés usaría otros textos (ver mi blog).
Creo que siempre debemos leer a Gerring, a Maxwell, y a KKV vs C/B vs Geddes
Ok, después de ir a caminar un buen rato, aquí van las recomendaciones.
1) Coincido 100% con mi colega @salazar_elena en recomendar a Barbara Geddes con Paradigms and Sand Castles. Si bien Geddes es (como yo) comparativista, su libro examina diseño de investigación en general.
First of all, you may have noticed I did not have a "Reading Notes" blog post of @biblioracle 's excellent book, "The Writer's Practice", which I HAVE read, recommended numerous times AND tweeted about. I think I never got around writing that post, which I'll do now.
I have become a MUCH better writer by PRACTICING WRITING.
I write a metric ton of text.
I write a blog. I write journal articles, book chapters, and I'm writing three books (don't ask, I'm just... unable to say "no" to interesting opportunities).
I have explained before...
... that I firmly believe we can ALL develop A WRITING PRACTICE.
In order to learn how to develop a system to regularly produce text, you DO need guidance. The books I'm going to write about and the posts I'm going to link to will explain how to develop this writing practice.