Sample letters of submission and sample manuscript checklists are given. Chapter 4 discusses revision of articles for publication and rewriting rejected manuscripts. Perseverance in resubmitting completed manuscripts is recommended. Chapter 5 addresses what must be done when a manuscript has been accepted, including working with editors on proofing and copyreading. Chapter 6 gives recommendations for marketing the publication to peers and the mass media, and Chapter 7 gives a plan for developing a personal program of productive publishing.
Appendices give writing style guides and journal guides for selected disciplines.
States that research and writing begin with a play of determinacy and indeterminacy, including presuppositions, formal findings, and technical and media products. Finds that this rhetorical approach leads to identifying levels and relationships. Suggests a typology for furthering dialog in science, literary criticism, and technical writing. An analysis of journal articles from physics and molecular biology carried out with the help of six specialists in those disciplines reveals that scientists read journal articles by searching for the most newsworthy information, a behavior similar to that of newspaper readers. For this reason the scientific journal article is gradually taking on text features that promote surprise value, conventions analogous to those of news reports.