10 Refine your Rhetorical Exigence

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 3
4. Getting Started
5. Love, Beauty, and Truth 13
6. Sit Down and Write, Get up and Move 17
7. Double Dipping 21
8. The Importance of Stories 25
9. Overcoming the Clinandrium Conundrum 28
10. You can do that in Rhetoric and Composition 32
11. What’s Interesting? 35
12. Start with what you Know 38
13. Believe in Yourself and in your Ability to Join Public and Scholarly Conversations 41
14. Refine your Rhetorical Exigence 45
15. Be a Content Strategist 49
16. Storyboard your Writing Projects 53
17. Invention and Arrangement While Driving 57
18. Chip Away 60
19. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the Research Hour 62
20. Keeping with and Thinking Through 66
21. Timing Matters 69
22. A WPA/First-Time Mom’s Guide to Producing the First Book for Tenure 72
23. Community Writing 77
24. Not a Draft but Materials 82
25. You will not be able to Stay Home 84
26. Practicing Whimsy 90
27. Trust the Process 96
28. Getting Feedback
29. Writing is/as Communal 103
30. Publishing as a PhD Student by Building Knowledge Across Communities 107
31. If you are going to Collaborate 111
32. From Chapter to Article with Collaborative Planning 116
33. What’s the Way in? 120
34. Planning the Perfect Heist 128
35. “Okay, your Turn” 131
36. Conference to Publication Pipeline 135
37. Be Open to Feedback 138
38. Embrace the Opposition 140
39. To Heed or not to Heed 145
40. Feedback from two Sides 149
41. The When of Submitting and Publication 152
42. Finding a Foothold
43. Be Brave and be Bold 157
44. Queer/ed Research 161
45. Remixing the Dissertation 166
46. Read the Journals, then Move the Field 170
47. Listen for a While, then Put in your O(A)R 174
48. Locate First, Invent Second 177
49. Selecting a Journal 180
50. It’s All about Fit 184
51. What’s the Payoff? 188
52. Achieving Visibility through Strategic Publication 191
53. U can Haz Fair Use! 195
54. Open or Closed? 199
55. Text/Design/Code 206
56. Speak to others as you would Like them to Speak to you 210
57. Read like a Writer, Write for your reader 214
58. Editing Texts, Editing Careers 219
59. Creating a Conversation in the field through Editing 223
60. Getting (More and Different Types of) Feedback
61. Coming to Terms with the Inevitability of Epic Failure; or, Once more unto the Breach 229
62. Rejection 233
63. “I am Recommending that the Editor Reject this Submission” 236
64. Pester Editors Politely 241
65. From Editors with Love . . . or Maybe not so Much! 244
66. What’s the way Forward? 247
67. Don’t take Editorial Advice—use It 256
68. Revise and Resubmit! but How? 259
69. From Resistance to Revision 263
70. Prioritizing Reviewer Comments for a “Revise and Resubmit” Request 267
71. Managing Reviewer and Editorial Feedback 271
72. Investigate, Target, Implement, Persevere 274
73. From Fear to Collaboration 280
74. Ruthless, Fussy, Alert 283
75. After the Acceptance 287
76. Moving On
77. The Ten-Year Plan 293
78. Aiming for After 296
79. Publishing is a Beginning 300
80. Your Book has Arrived! 303
81. Pursue Meaningful Projects 306
82. Don’t do Anything you can’t Write about 310
83. Conversational Publications 314
84. It’s Never Done 317
85. After the End 320
86. Index 323