The Scholar's Survival Manual: A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators

摘要

Scholarly writers capacitate the industry of scholarly publishing-material to publish must originate somewhere, after all-and most scholarly writers are supported by academic institutions. Although writing for publication is just one aspect of such scholars' lives, it is an important one. That message rings loudly and clearly through the pages of The Scholar's Survival Manual: A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators, wherein author Martin Krieger, professor of planning at the University of Southern California, has thematically grouped and presented 420 commentaries that originated as postings on his blog over the past fifteen or so years.His comments and insights are geared toward future and current tenure-track faculty at research universities, yet he is cognizant of the import of context and thus of both institutional and disciplinary differences. For example, scholarly writing is not the 'product' in all fields, particularly in the performance and practice fields. But writing for publication remains the way to impact a majority of scholarly arenas, and Krieger underscores the need for aspiring to make 'substantial and substantive' refereed contributions that are published in premier journals or by top presses (164).