Submissions

The last week has been pretty good. In spite of the stress and pressure of summer break, I have to say that I have felt a great deal of accomplishment in the last seven days. I had a manuscript that I had been given the chance to revise and resubmit to a journal, and I got that done. It’s not a paper that’s directly connected to my research program, but I have probably put more time and effort into the study that’s reported in that paper than anything else I’ve ever done (except possibly my dissertation). So I really want to get that paper published (if anyone reading this blog recently received a manuscript to review, be kind—it could be mine.). I also submitted 2 new manuscripts to journals. One of them, I have to admit, is not my best work. It is as much work as I really want to put into the project, and I am hoping to get merciful reviewers that have ideas about how it could be improved. I definitely feel a little guilty for submitting something that is probably not going to get accepted, but I wanted to see how it went—I felt like I owed it to the paper and to the students that helped with it to give it at least one try at a journal. The other recent submission is a paper that I’m proud of. I took the theory part of my dissertation and worked on it for about a year now. This paper presents a series of propositions about the concepts that are important in my research program over the next few years. I sent it to a better journal, and it would be quite a feather in my cap to have it published. It’s nice to feel productive, and it’s really nice to feel like I am finishing projects from this past spring and am ready to begin the summer. Even though summer is well underway.