Course:ASIA592/2023W2/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
- Harvard College Writing Center (See: "Writing Resources")
Completion and Motivation
- The Completion Agenda (5-article series)
- How to Finish Your Dissertation
- The No-Fail Secret to Writing a Dissertation
Research & Dissertating
General Research Advice
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
- Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago 17: The Chicago Manual of Style Online)
- 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
- 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
- Positions: Asia Critiques
- Chinese Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Korean Studies
- South Asian Studies
- Southeast Asian Studies
- 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
- Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Film and Media Studies
- Sikh Studies
- Theatre studies
- Gender and Women's Studies