Seminar: Demystifying Academic Publishing

Demystifying Academic Publishing
 

Professor Rita Elaine Silver
Emeritus Associate Professor
National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
 

February 26, 2026 (Thursday)
16:00 - 17:00
Room 408-410, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
Chair: Professor Kevin Tai

Abstract:
How do you prepare an article for publication in a scholarly journal? How do you pick a journal for submission? How do you improve your chances at successful publication? How do you deal with reviewer comments? Though academic publishing is crucial to scholarly life, it can see inaccessible and with unnecessarily opaque procedures and decision-making processes. In this talk, I draw on experiences as editor, reviewer, author and reader and de-mystify the process of submitting articles to academic journals and working through the process from submission to publication. I provide some insights on what editors and reviewers are looking for, while also noting the concerns of author and readers.

About the speaker:
Rita Elaine Silver is an Emeritus Associate Professor at National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests are in classroom language learning, literacy, and discourse; linguistic landscapes and multilingualism; research ethics and open science for applied linguistics. She is Co-Editor of Language and Education and was previously a Co-editor of Pedagogies: An International Journal (2013-2015). She serves on the Editorial Board for Language Policy, Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education (JICB), and Educational Linguistics and is on the Editorial Review Board for Australian Journal of Language and Literacy and for Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics. She has published widely in journal such as Research Methods in Applied Linguistics; Journal of Multilingualism and Multilingual Development; International Journal of Multilingualism; Language Awareness; Journal of Language, Identity & Education; Journal of Teacher Education; RELC Journal. 

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