Social Science Space

SAGE is proud to announce the launch of SAGE Language Services, a new online source that provides pre-submission manuscript preparation […]

Many academics find themselves in an increasingly specialized area of research, which has benefits like creating an identity, increasing productivity […]

Every now and again a paper is published on the number of errors made in academic articles.  These papers document the frequency of conceptual errors, factual errors, errors in abstracts, errors in quotations, and errors in reference lists. James Hartley reports that the data are alarming, but suggests a possible way of reducing them. Perhaps in future there might be a single computer program that matches references in the text with correct (pre-stored) references as one writes the text.

Be substantive and communicate your key findings – simple counsel from Patrick Dunleavy. But how exactly do you that? Here’s how.

Patrick Dunleavy offers four principles for improving how you display tables, graphs, charts and diagrams to give the beleaguered reader help in deciphering your message.

An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.

The opportunity for H&SS to reach much wider audiences who appreciate the value of their work generally, and to reach those specific people who will make important use of it is enormous.

If you’re writing or planning to write a journal article or book chapter, take some advice from Deborah Lupton of […]

If you’re writing a review paper, be sure to check out the Journal of Management Editor’s Choice collection on this […]

Interested in writing an article for a journal but struggling with it? SAGE published Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve […]