Academic writing and publishing

Pisanie i publikowanie akademickie

Aims

To present academic publishing in context
To familiarize PhD students with the editorial process
To showcase different publishing outlets
To support awareness of different methodologies/ research traditions
To present recent schools and movements connected to academic publishing
To problematise academic representation

Key concepts

Writing, publishing, academic journals, epistemology, epistemological perspectives, contribution to knowledge

Type of classes

Lectures and seminars.

How to pass the course

Class participation is obligatory (70% of the classes)
Submission of short abstract of intended journal publication

Course schedule

Mondays, 9:45 - 11:15

Dobra 55 room Z.223

1. 17.02.2025

The basics of academic publishing

Kostera, Monika (2022) Introduction, in: Monika Kostera (ed.) Writing Differently: A quest for meaningful academic witing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 9-16.

Merton, Robert K. (1993). On the shoulders of giants: A Shandean postscript. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2. 24.03.

Editorship

Risberg, Annette (2022) How do be a good editor - ten (very personal) commandments, in: Monika Kostera (ed.) Writing Differently: A quest for meaningful academic writing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 145-6.

Sorge, Arndt (2022) Resolving the ambivalences of editing a journal, in: Monika Kostera (ed.) Writing Differently: A quest for meaningful academic writing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 8-15.

3. 3.03.

Reviewing and responding to reviews

Daft, Richard L. (1995). Why I recommended that your manuscript be rejected and what you can do about it. In L. L. Cummings & Peter J. Frost (Eds.), Publishing in the organizational sciences (pp. 164-182). Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

Kostera, Monika (2022) Caring reviews, in: Monika Kostera (ed.) Writing Differently: A quest for meaningful academic writing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 88-98.

4. 10.03.

Writing Differently

Alvesson, Mats & Gabriel, Yiannis (2013). Beyond formulaic research: In praise of greater diversity in organizational research and publications. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 12, 245-263.

Alvesson Mats, Yiannis, Gabriel, & Paulsen, Ronald (2017). Return to meaning: A social science with something to say. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Boncori, Ilaria (2022). Researching and writing differently. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Gilmore, Sarah, Harding, Nancy, Helin, Jenny, & Pullen, Alison (2019). Writing differently. Management Learning, 50, 3-10.

Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy and Kostera, Monika (2024) (with Jerzy Kociatkiewicz) Writing Differently: On the Constraints and Possibilities of Presenting Research Rooted in Feminist Epistemologies, Gender, Work and Organization, 31/1, p. 284-304.

Muller, Jerry Z. (2019). The tyranny of metrics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

5. 17.03.

Writing projects: Abstracts, ideas, and research design

Ogłoszenia

Readings

Alvesson Mats, Yiannis, Gabriel, & Paulsen, Ronald (2017). Return to meaning: A social science with something to say. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Boncori, Ilaria (2022). Researching and writing differently. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Gilmore, Sarah, Harding, Nancy, Helin, Jenny, & Pullen, Alison (2019). Writing differently. Management Learning, 50, 3-10.

Kostera, Monika (2022) (ed.) Writing Differently: A quest for meaningful academic witing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Muller, Jerry Z. (2019). The tyranny of metrics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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