Course:ASIA570B-001/Writing and Publishing

General Writing Advice

• UBC Academic English Support Program (UBC Continuing studies)

The Academic English Support (AES) program offers free, one-on-one support to improve your academic English for success at UBC. (by JY)

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (Submitted by Yuqing Liu)

Completion and Motivation

• The Completion Agenda (5-article series)
• How to Finish Your Dissertation
• The No-Fail Secret to Writing a Dissertation

Dissertating

• Getting Started with Your Thesis or Dissertation (G+PS)
• How to Write a Thesis, by Umberto Eco
• Dissertation handout from the Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
• Surviving the Dissertation: Tips from Someone Who Mostly Has (GradHacker)
• Ten things I wish I'd known before starting my dissertation

Writing and Style

Advice on Stylish Writing

• Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams and Ira B. Nadel
• The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities by Eric Hayot
• Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword
• Academic Phrasebank (The Academic Phrasebank aims to provide examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation) (Submitted by Yuqing Liu)

Style Guides

MLA

• MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing

Chicago Manual

• Chicago Manual of Style
• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/
• https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocChicago_Notes_Shortened.html

Publishing

• Publishing your first academic article
• Writing for Scholarly Journals: Publishing in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2007 ebook)
• Publishing Basics for Anyone Submitting to a Scholarly Journal
• From Dissertation to Book and Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, two useful guides by William Germano

Journals

• Journal of Asian Studies (See the Instructions for contributors)
• Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (See the Submissions) (Submitted by Jiaqi Yao)
• http://clear.wisc.edu/submissions Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) (WM)
• PMJS Papers (See the PMJS Guidelines) (Submitted by Saeko Suzuki)
• East Asian Publishing and Society (See the Instructions for Authors) (Submitted by Saeko Suzuki)
• The Journal of Japanese Studies
• Japan Studies Association Journal
• Korean Studies
  • "The Journal of Korean Studies - Columbia University"
  • "The Seoul Journal of Korean Studies"
  • "Journal of East Asian Studies - Princeton University"
  • "Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies - Sungkyunkwan University"
• South Asian Studies
  • South Asian Popular Culture
  • Studies in South Asian Film and Media

• Interdisciplinary/Transnational
  • "Inter-Asia Cultural Studies - Instructions for authors" (posted by Akiko Hirao)
  • "Science Fiction Studies - Submission Policy" (posted by Akiko Hirao) - good mix of nationalities, sometimes has special issues on region/country specific science fiction