• Analyze the market for your

documents before writing• Have a marketing plan, with 3 or 4

journals in mind

• Network, before, during, and after

Don’t Let Rejection Beat You

• Don’t accept everything you hear. Ignore the cranks. (Like bad drivers, there are too many cranks for you to police.)

• Be your own worst critic. No one will take your work as seriously as you do.

• Don’t try to critique your work at the last minute.

Don’t let rejection beat you.

•  When writing, don’t worry about criticism.• Keep the manuscripts in the mail, yet don’t

mail junk! When you submit something, be sure it’s as good as you can make it, or, at the very least, that it won’t embarrass you.

• Get to know the editors who decide whether or not to publish your work. Call the editor if you are unsure about a reviewer’s comments.

Don’t Let Rejection Beat You

Don’t take criticism personally. Focus on the positive. Don’t waste your energies writing to editors and telling them why they were fools to reject your ideas. Instead, place your energies into moving forward. Either immediately revise the manuscript or send it back out for consideration elsewhere.

Work the Network

• Use Social Media to push your work out there. From Faculty Websites, – note Danah Boyd’s smooth integration of social

media. And link to her blog to see her talk about her research.

– Note Alex Reid’s twitter, etc.– Note Julian Dibbell’s social media as well...– Note Dennis Baron’s The Web of Language– Note Anson’s extensive Work in Progress

Sample Publication Timeline

• College English, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, February 26, 1985

• Written Communication, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, September 15, 1985

• Rhetoric Review, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, February 10, 1986

• Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, Niagara University, New York, October 31, 1986

• Journal of Basic Writing, The City University of New York New York, New York, January 14, 1987

• Journal of Basic Writing, April 28, 1987• JAC, July 5, 1988

Sample Publication Timeline• College Composition and Communication, National Council of

Teachers of English, Findlay, Ohio, August 2, 1988• Journal of Teaching Writing, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 28, 1989• College Composition and Communication, NCTE, Bowling

Green, Ohio, November 6, 1989• Research in the Teaching of English, State University of New

York at Albany, Albany, New York, January 12, 1990• Journal of Teaching Writing. Indiana University English

Department, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 26, 1990 • The Writing Instructor, University of Southern California/. Los

Angeles, CA, August 17, 1991. • Published without revisions as the lead article: "Reinventing the

Wheel or Teaching the Basics? College Writers' Knowledge of Argumentation." Composition Studies 21:2 (Fall 1993): 3-15.