Our Reflections on Writing for Publication

The outgoing editorial team of Language Arts reflect on their insights about writing a manuscript for submission to a journal. They focused on patterns in the suggestions of reviewers and in their editorial letters over a five year period of time. They discuss the range of decisions to consider related to planning and writing a draft and then revisiting and reshaping that draft before submitting it to a journal for review. Examples from articles published during their editorship are used to discuss the range of alternatives for each decision.