Writing for Publication by William Allan Kritsonis, PhD

1. WRITING FOR PROFESSIONAL
PUBLICATION IN NATIONAL
REFEREED JOURNALS
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
Professor
PhD Program in Educational Leadership
PVAMU/The Texas A&M University System

2. 1. Professional reasons for
writing for publication

3. 2. Personal reasons for writing
for publication

4. 3. How real writers behave

5. 4. Writer’s write for the following
reasons

6. 5. How to get started

7. 6. What will “sell” the editor on
your work?

8. 7. Formula: Brilliant Ideas +
Good Luck + Knowing the Right
People = Publication

9. 8. On scholarly work

10. 9. Reasons to write and publish
journal articles

11. 10. Writing and publishing
journal articles enables you to…

12. 11. Three basic types of articles:
practical – review or theoretical -
research

13. 12. Quantitative Studies

14. 13. Qualitative Research

15. 16. Some reasons to write a book

16. 17. Where does the dollar go after
a book is published?

17. 18. What do editors and
reviewers really want?

18. 19. Earning approval from
editors and reviewers

19. 20. What to remember about bad
writing

20. 21. How to get fired as a reviewer

21. 22. Publish or perish or teach or
impeach

22. 23. I’ve been rejected many times
– should I give up?

23. 24. In writing, how you read is
important

24. 25. How teachable is writing?

25. 26. “I can’t seem to tell how my
writing is going while I am doing
it.” Can you help?

26. 27. Remember your purpose in
writing

27. 28. What differentiates ordinary
writing from writing with style

28. 29. It must get somewhat easier
to write, otherwise, how would
some authors become so prolific?

29. 30. If writing for publication does
not prove to be lucrative, why
bother?

30. 31. Why creative work is
worthwhile

31. 32. Show respect for your
writing. It is about what the
readers should know. If this puts
a strain on a professional
relationship, then so be it.

32. 33. “Why I Write” (Orwell)
Sheer egoism, aesthetic
enthusiasm, historical
impulse, and political purpose.

33. 34. What really makes an
academic write?

34. 35. The Writer’s Essential Tools –
words and the power to face
unpleasant facts.

35. 36. No human activity can sap
the strength from body and life
from spirit as much as writing in
which one doesn’t believe.

36. 37. “Because it was there.”
Edmund Hillary. And with this
comment he supplied generations
with a ready-made and
unanswerable defense for any
new undertaking even writing.

37. 38. Why we write.

38. 39. Climbing Your Own
Mountain

39. 40. Be yourself. Have fun writing.

40. Contact Information
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis
Professor
PhD Program in Educational Leadership
Prairie View A&M University
Whitlowe R. Green College of Education – Delco 233
Prairie View, Texas 77446
williamkritsonis@yahoo.com
281-550-5700 Home / 832-483-7889 Cell