WRITING FOR PROFESSIONAL

PUBLICATION IN NATIONAL

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William Allan Kritsonis, PhD

Professor

PhD Program in Educational Leadership

PVAMU/The Texas A&M University System

1. Professional reasons for

writing for publication

2. Personal reasons for writing

for publication

3. How real writers behave

4. Writer’s write for the following

reasons

5. How to get started

6. What will “sell” the editor on

your work?

7. Formula: Brilliant Ideas +

Good Luck + Knowing the Right

People = Publication

8. On scholarly work

9. Reasons to write and publish

journal articles

10. Writing and publishing

journal articles enables you to…

11. Three basic types of articles:

practical – review or theoretical -

research

12. Quantitative Studies

13. Qualitative Research

16. Some reasons to write a book

17. Where does the dollar go after

a book is published?

18. What do editors and

reviewers really want?

19. Earning approval from

editors and reviewers

20. What to remember about bad

writing

21. How to get fired as a reviewer

22. Publish or perish or teach or

impeach

23. I’ve been rejected many times

– should I give up?

24. In writing, how you read is

important

25. How teachable is writing?

26. “I can’t seem to tell how my

writing is going while I am doing

it.” Can you help?

27. Remember your purpose in

writing

28. What differentiates ordinary

writing from writing with style

29. It must get somewhat easier

to write, otherwise, how would

some authors become so prolific?

30. If writing for publication does

not prove to be lucrative, why

bother?

31. Why creative work is

worthwhile

32. Show respect for your

writing. It is about what the

readers should know. If this puts

a strain on a professional

relationship, then so be it.

33. “Why I Write” (Orwell)

Sheer egoism, aesthetic

enthusiasm, historical impulse,

and political purpose.

34. What really makes an

academic write?

35. The Writer’s Essential Tools –

words and the power to face

unpleasant facts.

36. No human activity can sap

the strength from body and life

from spirit as much as writing in

which one doesn’t believe.

37. “Because it was there.”

Edmund Hillary. And with this

comment he supplied generations

with a ready-made and

unanswerable defense for any

new undertaking even writing.

38. Why we write.

39. Climbing Your Own

Mountain

40. Be yourself. Have fun writing.

Contact InformationDr. William Allan Kritsonis

Professor

PhD Program in Educational Leadership

Prairie View A&M University

Whitlowe R. Green College of Education – Delco 233

Prairie View, Texas 77446

williamkritsonis@yahoo.com

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