A Guide to Academic Writing

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This book is a comprehensive guide to academic writing and publishing. It approaches the subject from a descriptive foundation for understanding academic tenure and promotion decisionmaking. The book then treats the considerations for selecting the avenues open to an academic for publishing: conference papers, grants, journals, scholarly books, texts, and popular or trade books. Each avenue is given a chapter-length discussion. Electronic media is also described in detail. Finally, Cantor offers a view of the marketing of a book product.

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It is a pleasure to read a book with a clearly stated point of view, and one that is written by an author who is in command of the subject matter and writes with a readable style. What is unique about this book in relation to similar, previously published titles, is the author's coupling of the mechanics of good academic writing with the "why's and wherefore's" of academic publishing.-Publishing Research Quarterly
"It is a pleasure to read a book with a clearly stated point of view, and one that is written by an author who is in command of the subject matter and writes with a readable style. What is unique about this book in relation to similar, previously published titles, is the author's coupling of the mechanics of good academic writing with the "why's and wherefore's" of academic publishing."-Publishing Research Quarterly

Author Bio

JEFFREY A. CANTOR is Associate Professor of Adult Education and Corporate Training, Lehman College, City University of New York. Among Professor Cantor's earlier book and journal publications is A History of the Public Debt in the United States (Praeger, 1989).