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Preparing Research Articles POCKET GUIDES TO SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH METHODS Series Editor Tony Tripodi, DSW Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University Determining Sample Size: Balancing Power, Precision, and Practicality Patrick Dattalo BRUCE A. THYER Prepari ng Research Articles OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2008 OXFORD UNIVBRSITY PRBSS Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University' s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hang Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam CopYTight r;· 2008 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a regisiered trademark of Oxford U n iversity Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by an y means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thyer, Bruce A. Preparing research artides l Bruce A. Thyer. p. cm.-( Pocket guides to social work research methods) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532337-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) l. Sociology-Authorship-Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Sociology-Research-Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Report writing-Handbooks, manuals, etc. l. Title. HM569.T49 2008 808' .0663-dc22 2007037947 Acknowledgments All of us are shaped by our environments, physical and interpersonal. I can trace back the genesis of this book to almost 30 years ago, when I began my P hD studies in the jo in t Doctoral Program in Social W ork and Social Science at the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan School of Social W ork was headed by Dean Philip Fellin, and the Doctoral Program was directed by Professor Yeheskel (Zeke) Ha zenfeld. The social work faculty, whom I was forturrate to be able to receive instruction from, included Edwin Thomas, Tony Tripodi, David Himle, Sheila Feld, Norrna Radin, Jack Rothman, and Charles Garvin, while in psychology I learned from luminaries such as Hazel Markus, Robert Zajonc, James McConnell, and Richard Nisbett. My major professor was a psychologist narned James Papsdorf, who was incredibly supportive, and a wonderful psychiatrist over in the Department of Psychiatry narned George Curtis proved to be an ideal clinical and re search mentor, as were my psychiatric colleagues Oliver Cameron and Randolph N esse. My tolerant and much appreciated clinical social work supervisor was David Neale. While I would not want any of these col leagues to be blarned for my professional missteps over the past 30 years, I would like to acknowledge the positive instrumental role that they played in my professional development. I am most grateful to them vi Acknowledgments and to my Doctoral Program. I dedicate this book to two other important influences in my professional life, Alisa Rosenbaum and Friedrich A. Hayek. Bruce A. Thyer Tallahassee, FL Contents The Importance of Journal Artides 2 Targeting One or More Potential Journals 13 3 Preparing the Manuscript 33 4 Submitting the Manuscript 67 5 Dealing with Revisions and Rejections 72 6 Your Obligations as a Published Author 76 References 85 Suggested Further Reading 89 Index 91 Preparing Research Articles 1 The lmportance of Journal Articles I n professional and scientific fields such as social work, the publication of an artide in a high-quality peer-reviewed journal is viewed as a contribution to disciplinary knowledge that stands somewhat above other forms of scholarship. Why is this? Is it fair? Should this episte mological privileging of certain ways of disseminating research over others be endorsed and supported by you and the profession at !arge? In this initial chapter, I review the status of research artides as a form of professional contribution in social work, and I try to explain the ra tionale for valuing such artides over other ways of contributing to knowledge in the field. In later chapters I discuss considerations re garding locating and selecting an appropriate journal to submit your work to; how toprepare and submit your research manuscript; and your obligations as an author after your manuscript has been submitted, accepted, and published. My intent is to help dear away some of the mysteries, or at !east little-understood processes, of publisbing research artides, and to enhance your success in that area. In turn, I (perhaps immodestly) hope that the general field of social work scholarship will be enhanced. I have accrued some of this information(at times pain fully) by working as a moderately successful researeher myself, by serving

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The art of writing up a completed research project in a format suitable for submission to a social work journal is an ability separate from one's skills as a research methodologist. It is also an ability that, despite its importance, is often overlooked by research courses and senior-level mentors.
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