

So, too, must I acknowledge that journals, particularly specialty ones, may have their own style of writing, so the articles you read in them may not follow the format I’ll lay out below. Note that I’m a sociologist, so my insights are field-specific. In this essay, I’ll break down and demystify the format of an article for a general journal. Much of what I’ve learned about publishing comes from submitting papers to journals, incorporating reviewer comments, workshopping papers and having conversations with colleagues and mentors. I was lucky enough to be in a department that had a yearlong seminar dedicated to just that: conducting research and writing a publishable paper prior to starting the dissertation.īut that was just the first step.

One of the most important parts of professionalization is being able to publish your research.

Graduate school is professionalization into the academy.
