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Looking inside the world of peer review: Implications for graduate student writers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2018

Brian Paltridge
Brian Paltridge*
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Abstract

Getting published in academic journals is increasingly important for research students in terms of gaining employment when they complete their studies and, in the future, for tenure and promotion applications once they have obtained an academic appointment. In this paper, I discuss some of the challenges that student (and early career) writers face when submitting articles to academic journals and, in particular, how they might better understand and respond to the reports they receive on their work.

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Language Teaching , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 331 - 342
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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Footnotes

Revised version of a plenary presentation delivered at the 1st Annual Conference of Asia ESP (English for special purposes) and the 6th Chinese National Symposium on ESP, 27–29 October 2017, Beijing, China.

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