Contents
Introduction / John R. Gallagher and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
Section 1. Getting Started: Inventing, Brainstorming, and Managing
1. Love, Beauty, and Truth: On Finding a Dissertation Topic / Lynn Z. Bloom
2. Sit Down and Write, Get Up and Move / Gesa E. Kirsch
3. Double Dipping / Andrea Abernethy Lunsford
4. The Importance of Stories / Nancy G. Barrón
5. Overcoming the Clinandrium Conundrum / Carrie Strand Tebeau
6. You Can Do That in Rhetoric and Composition / Byron Hawk
7. What's Interesting? Originality and Its Discontents / John Trimbur
8. Start with What You Know / Ashanka Kumari
9. Believe in Yourself and in Your Ability to Join Public and Scholarly Conversations / Heidi A. McKee
10. Refine Your Rhetorical Exigence / Naomi Silver
11. Be a Content Strategist / Michael J. Faris
12. Storyboarding Your Writing Projects / Chris M. Anson
13. Invention and Arrangement while Driving: Writing for the Commute / Jim Ridolfo
14. Chip Away / Cruz Medina
15. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Research Hour / Ellen Barton
16. Keeping with and Thinking Through: On Maintaining a Daily Work Log / Jody Shipka
17. Timing Matters: Focus on Achievable Tasks / Michael Baumann
18. A WPA/First-Time Mom's Guide to Producing the First Book for Tenure / Staci Perryman-Clark
19. Community Writing: From Classroom to Workplace and Back / Stephen A. Bernhardt
20. Not a Draft but Materials / Joseph Harris
21. You Will Not Be Able to Stay Home: Quantitative Research in Writing Studies / Norbert Elliot
22. Practicing WHIMSY / Jenn Fishman
23. Trust the Process / Kathleen Blake Yancey
Section 2. Getting Feedback: Sharing Drafts, Collaborating, and (Re)Developing
24. Writing Is/as Communal / Trixie G. Smith
25. Publishing as a PhD Student by Building Knowledge across Communities / Laura Gonzales
26. If You Are Going to Collaborate: Three Considerations / Joan Mullin
27. From Chapter to Article with Collaborative Planning / Linda Flower
28. What's the Way In? Some Lessons and Considerations about Inventing as a Collaborative Team, from a Collaborative Team / Julie Lindquist and Bump Halbritter
29. Planning the Perfect Heist: On the Importance of Assembling a Team of Specialists in Your Writing Group / Ben McCorkle
30. "Okay, Your Turn": A Dialogue on Collaboration and Editing / Kyle D. Stedman and Courtney S. Danforth
31. Conference to Publication Pipeline: Making Work Work for You / Katie Manthey
32. Be Open to Feedback: Separate Yourself from Your Writing / Janice Cools
33. Embrace the Opposition / Asao B. Inoue
34. To Heed or Not to Heed: Evaluating Advice / Marcia Bost
35. Feedback from Two Sides / Amber Buck
36. The When of Submitting and Publication / John R. Gallagher and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
Section 3. Finding a Foothold: Identifying Audiences, Targeting Presses, and Situating Scholarly Fit
37. Be Brave and Be Bold / Shirley Rose
38. Queer/ed Research: Disrupting the Unending Conversation / Jacqueline Rhodes
39. Remixing the Dissertation / Jason Palmeri
40. Read the Journals, Then Move the Field / Kristine Blair
41. Listen for a While, Then Put in Your O(a)r / David Blakesley
42. Locate First, Invent Second / William Duffy
43. Selecting a Journal / Erin Jensen
44. It's All about Fit: Finding Your Particular Publication / Kathryn Comer
45. What's the Payoff? / Marilyn M. Cooper
46. Achieving Visibility through Strategic Publication / Christie Toth and Darin L. Jensen
47. U Can Haz Fair Use! / Timothy R. Amidon
48. Open or Closed? Observations on Open-Access Publishers / Mike Palmquist
49. Text/Design/Code: Advice on Developing and Producing a Scholarly Webtext / Douglas Eyman
50. Speak to Others as You Would Like Them to Speak to You / Craig Cotich
51. Read Like a Writer, Write for Your Reader / Troy Hicks
52. Editing Texts, Editing Careers / Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber
53. Creating a Conversation in the Field through Editing / Mya Poe
Section 4. Getting (More and Different Types of) Feedback: Navigating Reviewers and Understanding Editorial Responses
54. Coming to Terms with the Inevitability of Epic Failure; or, Once More unto the Breach / Ryan Skinnell
55. Rejection: It's Not the Last Step / Heather Lettner-Rust
56. "I Am Recommending That the Editor Reject This Submission" / Patrick Sullivan
57. Pester Editors Politely / James J. Brown Jr.
58. From Editors with Love . . . or Maybe Not so Much! / Lilian W. Mina
59. What's the Way Forward? Some Lessons and Considerations about Revising from Feedback as a Collaborative Team, from a Collaborative Team / Bump Halbritter and Julie Lindquist
60. Don't Take Editorial Advice - Use It / Bruce Horner
61. Revise and Resubmit! But How? / Sarah Kornfield
62. From Resistance to Revision: Staging a Response to a "Revise and Resubmit" / Jessica Enoch
63. Prioritizing Reviewer Comments for a "Revise and Resubmit" Request / Gabriel Cutrufello
64. Managing Reviewer and Editorial Feedback / Rebecca E. Burnett
65. Investigate, Target, Implement, Persevere: Understanding the Academic Publishing Process through Editors' Eyes / Tara Lockhart, Brenda Glascott, Justin Lewis, Holly Middleton, Juli Parrish, and Chris Warnick
66. From Fear to Collaboration: Working with Academic Journal/Series Editors / Steve Parks
67. Ruthless, Fussy, Alert: A Quick Guide to Copyediting / Christina M. LaVecchia, Janine Morris, and Laura R. Micciche
68. After the Acceptance / Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo
Section 5. Moving On
69. The Ten-Year Plan / Laurie Gries
70. Aiming for After: Doing Time-Consuming Projects with a Sense of an Ending / Douglas Hesse
71. Publishing Is a Beginning / Joyce Carter
72. Your Book Has Arrived! Now What? / Kim Hensley Owens
73. Pursue Meaningful Projects: Learn to Keep Learning / Ellen Cushman
74. Don't Do Anything You Can't Write About / Jeffrey T. Grabill
75. Conversational Publications / Jeff Rice
76. It's Never Done: Rethinking Post-Publication / Donna LeCourt
77 After the End / Sid Dobrin
Index