What exactly does an editor do?
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Ingrid Piller
Abstract
This final editorial by outgoing Multilingua editor Ingrid Piller provides a glimpse behind the scenes of academic publishing. The work of a journal editor falls into five broad areas: desk-rejecting; managing peer review; evaluating and assessing research; taking affirmative action; and solving problems and setting directions. This article provides a brief overview of what is involved in each area, and includes recommendations for improvement, both for the field and individual researchers.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- What exactly does an editor do?
- Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study
- Adrift between republican values and plurilingual policies: (pre)primary school teachers’ reported practiced language policies in Strasbourg
- Sharing communicative responsibility: training US students in cooperative strategies for communicating across linguistic difference
- International students’ perceptions of multilingual English-medium instruction classrooms: a case study in Taiwan
- Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran
- Review
- A review of Jie Zhang’s Language policy and planning for the modern olympic games
