Preparing research articles by Bruce A. Thyer

By Bruce A. Thyer

Thyer's frank suggestion on settling on a suitable magazine, dealing with rejections and revisions, knowing complicated thoughts like effect elements and digital publishing, and heading off universal methodological and formatting pitfalls, represent a goldmine for the fledging researcher-writer.

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If the journal uses a Web-based portal to process submissions, you should get word within a day or two that the journal has received your artide and that it is being processed for review; this may take a couple of weeks if the journal still requires you to submit a hard-copy manuscript (though this is increasingly rare). Sometimes the editor will make an initial determination and decide that your artide is simply inappropriate for that particular journal, in which case the manuscript will be returned to you very soon, and you will be free to send it elsewhere.

OS) prefer using post-conventional moral reasoning, compared to MSW students with undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts, as assessed by mean scores on the Kohlberg Moral Reasoning Test. The hypothesis prediets a difference in a particular direction and involving a statistically significant change. It mentions the group s of participants and the variables involved, and it implies a eausal relationship. y termina te the BIP, two years post-BIP completion. 40. " One problem with how these hypotheses are worded is that any differences or changes, occurring in any direction, will be supported, no matter how big or small or whether they are statistically significant or not.

If you are up for promotion or tenure, find out what your colleagues value more, social work or non-social work journal articles, and target your journal outlets accordingly. • Preferentially seek to publish in journals with higher, rather than lower, impact factors. • Seek to publish in journals that concurrently support hard-copy and dectronie versions. • Take ethically appropriate advantage of personal relationships, theoretical or methodological preferences, or editorial biases in choosing your journal.

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