This page is a work in progress. If you know of any good resources on these themes, please send them my way.

How to write journal articles

Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s method from N-1

I highly recommend this great series. I try to follow it and can never manage it exactly, but near enough is often good enough.  Read these in order:

• Publishing strategies (generally)
• How to Write a Journal Article (in 6 steps): Step 1 — Analyze a Model
• How to Write a Journal Article (in 6 Steps): Step 2 — The Conclusion
• How to Write a Journal Article (in 6 Steps): Step 3 — The Literature Review
• How to Write a Journal Article (in 6 Steps): Step 4 — The Evidence
• How to Write a Journal Article (in 6 Steps): Step 5 — The Introduction & Argument
• How to Write a Journal Article (in 6 Steps): Step 6 — Fine Tuning

Then there is this: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005619

And this: https://sethlsanders.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/how-to-win-friends-and-impress-reviewers-by-writing-boring-normal-articles/

And these have been recommended by colleagues at the University of New England:

• http://web.archive.org/web/19971014014626/http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati/write.htm
• Rowena Murray and Sarah Moore’s Handbook of academic writing
• Joshua Schimel, Writing science

Structure

This essay from Philip J. Deloria covers a lot, but his comments on structure an outlining are especially useful to me: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/writers-studio-with-philip-j-deloria/E69D2DDA77AADCE0CEFB272D7AD1EBA7

Choosing titles

• Why do academics choose useless titles for articles and chapters? Four steps to getting a better title.

General writing tools

A bare-bones outline of common approaches to writing:

• Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity

… with a follow-up piece here.

An all-round excellent blog for academic writing:

• Writing for Research

This site is a kind of self-referential academic performance art, but probably very useful too:

• Academic phrasebank

Another one on search engine optimisation:

• Search Engine Optimization and Your Journal Article: Do you want the bad news first?

How to publish a book from your thesis

• How to Publish an Academic Book – Why Choosing a Publisher is Important and How to Choose One
• https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction
• Greg Downey: https://twitter.com/GregDowney1/status/1308181320078520320

How to peer-review an article

• Writing a helpful referee’s report

Dealing with a shitty peer review

• http://cognitionandculture.net/blogs/hugo-mercier/why-assholes-are-more-likely-to-be-wrong/

Applying for grants

• Art of Grantsmanship
• https://medium.com/@DrShaneRRR/scientists-10-steps-to-help-you-get-you-next-grant-14f6722d03ff

Teaching

• How to hold a better class discussion
• How to create a syllabus

Font development

• Font development funding models: Typecon panel

Tech stuff

• The programming historian lesson directory

Writing an abstract

• Writing informative abstracts for journal articles