Journal Article Intensive — Lisa Munro

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 Got a journal article that needs some love (and revision)?

You’ve come to the right place!

Getting your journal article written is only the first step to getting your work published.

And then comes the revisions.

In the ideal world, you’d send off your journal article, it would sail through peer review, and you’d get your work published without a hitch.

But…

A lot can happen on your way to publication.

  • Your work might get desk rejected without ever going through peer review. (ugh)

  • Your article might go all the way through peer review and still get rejected. (ughhhhhhh)

OR

  • You might receive a revise and resubmit decision (yaaay!) but you might be struggling to figure out how to incorporate the reviewer’s comments (hiiii Reviewer 2!) while still writing the article you want to write.

    In any of these cases, you’ll need to revise your article into a stronger and more incisive piece of scholarship.

    But where do you even start?

If your article has ended up in any of these scenarios, you might be feeling pretty discouraged, frustrated, overwhelmed, or lost about where or how to even start revising your work. You might even be feeling pretty down about your abilities and your ideas. But take heart!

There’s good news.

If your article’s been rejected, here’s something that no one will tell you about a rejected journal article.

Perfectly good journal articles get rejected all the time.

And with some revision, they can still get published.

And if you’ve gotten a slew of confusing comments from Reviewer 2, that also doesn’t mean your work isn’t publishable. (Also, you’re not required to comply with every single request!) With some fresh eyes and revision, you can send your work back out into the world as a stronger and more publishable article than it was before.

Here’s where the 1:1 Revise and Resubmit Journal Article Intensive comes in.

If you’ve ever wished for some 1:1 help and feedback to help guide you through the revision process, here it is!

Let’s talk about working together to get your work back out into the world!

Hey there, I’m Lisa Munro, PhD. I’ve helped hundreds of academics rethink their arguments, articulate the tricky “So what?” questions, present evidence effectively, restructure their articles for maximum impact, write compelling conclusions, and above all, get published. Together, we’ll come up with a plan to revise your article, draw on its strengths to figure out where and how it can grow into the article you want to write and publish.

THE JOURNAL ARTICLE INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE

$1200 USD

I’ve designed the Revise and Resubmit Journal Article Intensive as an experience that combines the best of developmental editing (sometimes called structural editing), writing coaching, and my journal article writing workshop. You'll get feedback and ideas about how to improve your article but in one day, as opposed to weeks or months. We'll be doing the same kind of evaluation I'd do for you if I performed a developmental edit on your manuscript, but we'll be working as a team to improve it--and talking over ideas with someone who doesn't know your work like you do is always very generative! 

We'll be working together over the course of six hours (usually a 9am to 3pm Central time). We'll both come to the video call already having read you article (you're probably sick of reading it by now but I’ll be looking at it with fresh eyes) and any reviewer or editor feedback. We'll spend the first thirty minutes talking about where you're struggling or feel stuck and review any feedback you might have already gotten on your article.

And then we'll move on to talking about your ideas and evaluating the major parts of your article, including:

  • Your article's central claim, significant idea, or argument.

  • Making your abstract sing.

  • Strategizing about where to submit your article

  • Evaluating your literature review and identifying debates

  • Developing your citation politics

  • Generating claims for significance

  • Your article's evidence

  • How to structure your article

  • Incorporating reviewer feedback


I'll provide you with a gift card for lunch (like DoorDash or GrubHub) so we can have a working lunch and keep the conversation going.

We'll collaborate on a shared Google Doc to capture all of the great ideas that come out of our call so you have some written feedback you can refer to once we're done. We'll also come up with a solid revision plan broken down into concrete steps. And a plan for integrating your reviewer feedback.

The Fine Print: our call together and our shared Google Doc is the deliverable of the Journal Article Intensive. I don’t include a manuscript evaluation outside of our collaborative notes.

After we're done, we'll review what we've done together. And you'll have an additional week of email support from me about your project!

But don’t just take my word for it. Here’s some words from a former client, whose article was published in a leading journal in their field:

Lisa’s expertise was a godsend when my article was accepted with revisions. She helped me trim over a thousand words off the original manuscript by identifying sections where the narrative dragged and distracted from my argument. She also edited my writing to trim words and streamline sentences. Lisa’s fast, insightful, and careful attention to my work kept me moving toward the finish line when my energy flagged. —

Ready to get started on your revisions?

Let’s schedule a free call to make sure that this journal article intensive is right for you. Click below to schedule.