Academic Publishing in Practice and Theory

Welcome

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Welcome to "Academic Publishing in Practice and Theory" (STS 5424; CRN 18933) for spring 2018. Our course is taught through the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.

Course Description

Our course emphasizes practical aspects in the integrative processes of academic publishing—reading, individual and collaborative writing and authorship, writing groups, peer review and refereeing, rejection, revision, publication, reception—examines the influence of particular publishing houses, presses and bundlers; addresses the relative significance of impact factors, altmetrics, and empirical practices like bibliometrics; considers the perils and promises of disciplinarity and inter- and trans- disciplinarity; analyzes the relationship between the university and academic publishing; and takes up theoretical approaches, alternative venues, and normative obligations to scholarship. If you are interested in publishing your work, this course serves as a cautious and hopeful introduction to what awaits.

Public Domain This course content is offered under a Public Domain Links to an external site. license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.