ENGL 5390:
Writing for Publication
Fall 2013
Section 002: W 6:00 - 9:00 in 354
Course Description
Expected Learning Outcomes
Required Texts
Belcher, Wendy. Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks. ISBN
978-1-4129-5701-4.
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. ISBN
978-0-87352-297-7.
Your previously prepared critical essay of 5,000-7,000 words. (NB: this must be
a critical work, rather than a creative work; the creative writing faculty
provide the best advice on publishing creative work.)
Additional readings available through
course
website or library databases
Required Work
An important note about faculty mentors
: As you work on your essay --- and indeed throughout your graduate career --- it will be important for you to have a faculty mentor in your field whom you can ask for advice and help. This is important not just in the limited sense that it'll help you improve your paper, but also in the broader sense that building such relationships can significantly help your career. But as you seek to build such relationships, it is crucial to be aware that faculty members have many demands on their time, demands that have direct and significant effects on their own careers. Most faculty are genuinely kind and generous people who want to help students --- but they also need to protect the time they have to do research and meet their other professional obligations because those things allow them to keep their jobs. Therefore it behooves you to respect their time as you build relationships with them. It is rarely a good idea simply to drop your paper on a faculty member and ask them to read it. A better approach is to arrange a specific meeting time and arrive with specific, focused questions about particular elements of your essay. This will pay off in the short term because it makes it more likely that you'll actually get the help you're seeking, and it'll pay off in the long term because behaving professionally with your faculty members will help create the foundation for a better relationship.Schedule
(subject to change)W 8/28 |
Introduction to the course; what’s an abstract? and how to write one |
W 9/4 | Critical approaches, target
audiences, clarity and style Belcher ch. 3 Eliza Haywood, Fantomina (available online via Course Readings page) Margaret Case Croskery, “Masquing Desire: The Politics of Passion in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina” Helen Thompson, “Plotting Materialism: W. Charleton's The Ephesian Matron, E. Haywood's Fantomina, and Feminine Consistency” Melissa Mowry, “Eliza Haywood’s Defense of London’s Body Politic” Tiffany Potter, “The Language of Feminised Sexuality: Gendered Voice in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess and Fantomina” Charles H. Hinnant, “Ironic Inversion in Eliza Haywood’s Fiction: Fantomina and “‘The History of the Invisible Mistress’” see course readings page for links to most of these readings; search the library for articles not posted there Due: Article abstract (with enough copies for peer group) |
W 9/11 | Guest speaker:
Dr. Jennifer Snead on how journal editors evaluate
submissions Read handout of readers’ reports, MLA chs. 1 & 4, and Belcher ch. 4 Due: CV report and Comparative Journal Analysis Essay Draft 1 |
W 9/18 | Individual conferences; no class |
W 9/25 |
Writing, structure, and style; or, things
you thought you didn’t have to worry about any more (thesis, structure,
introductions, conclusions, revision, etc.) |
W 10/2 |
Guest speakers: Dr. Julie Nelson Couch on
submitting and publishing scholarly work |
W 10/9 | Kvande, "Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa:
Between Print and Manuscript." 42nd Annual Meeting of
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC (17-20
March, 2011). Kvande, "Printed in a Book: Negotiating Print and Manuscript Cultures in Fantomina and Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Studies 46.2 (2013): 239-57. (via library) Belcher ch. 9 Due: Essay Draft 2 to peer group |
W 10/16 |
Conference presentations: (presenters' bios and titles due
by Monday 10/14 at 5pm) |
W 10/23 |
Conference presentations: (presenters' bios and titles due by Monday 10/21 at 5pm) |
W 10/30 |
Guest speaker: Dr. Jen Shelton and Dr. Anne Sanow on writing and
publishing a scholarly book |
W 11/6 |
Guest speaker: Dr. Sara Spurgeon on editing a collection of essays |
W 11/13 |
Individual conferences |
W 11/20 |
Guest speaker: Dr.
TBA on
grantwriting for the humanities |
W 11/27 |
Thanksgiving holiday; no class |
W 12/4 | Due: Final essay and cover letter |