Course:ASIA592/2022W2/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.

• Purdue Online Writing Lab

Completion and Motivation

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

Research & Dissertating

• The Craft of Research

Dissertating

• Getting Started with Your Thesis or Dissertation (G+PS; link broken, retrieved through the Wayback Machine)
• 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 (also available online through UBC library)
• The Elements of Styles by William Strunk, Jr (also available online through UBC library)
• 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)

Style Guides

• MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing

• Chicago Manual of Style
• Documentation formats (University of Wisconsin Writing Center)

Publishing

• Publishing your first academic article (retrieved through the Wayback Machine; or see Tracy Perkins's original blog post)
• Writing for Scholarly Journals: Publishing in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2007 ebook)
• Publishing Basics for Anyone Submitting to a Scholarly Journal (retrieved through the Wayback Machine)
• Publishing in Asian Studies Journals: A Discussion with Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Hyung-Gu Lynn (Podcast on the New Books Network)
• 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
• Predatory Journals: What They Are and How to Avoid Them Toxicologic Pathology, 2020
• List of Predatory Journals

Journals

• Asian Studies/East Asian Studies
  • Asian Journal of Women's Studies (Instructions for authors)
  • East Asian Publishing and Society (Instructions for Authors)
  • International Journal of Asian Studies
  • Journal of the American Oriental Society
  • Journal of Asian Studies (Submission Guideline; previously under Cambridge University Press)
  • Journal of Contemporary Asia (Instructions for authors)
  • Journal of East Asian Studies
  • Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
• Chinese Studies
  • Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)
  • Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (See the Submissions)
  • Tang Studies
  • T'oung Pao
• Japanese Studies
  • Japan Studies Association Journal
  • The Journal of Japanese Studies
  • Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) Papers (See the PMJS Guidelines)
• Korean Studies
  • Journal of Korean Studies
  • Korean Studies
  • International Journal of Korean History (Open-access)
  • Seoul Journal of Korean Studies
• South Asian Studies
  • BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
  • Dastavezi: the Audio-Visual South Asia
  • South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
  • South Asian Popular Culture
  • Studies in South Asian Film and Media

• Interdisciplinary/Transnational
  • Inter-Asia Cultural Studies - Instructions for authors
  • Science Fiction Studies - Submission Policy - mix of nationalities, sometimes has special issues on region/country specific science fiction
• Film Studies
  • [in]Transition
• Sikh Studies
  • Sikh Formations
• Theatre studies
  • Asian Theatre Studies