Picking Up on an Old Idea

Okay, this is picking up on something from what seems like year's ago, but was only from the Spring. Anyway, in the Spring, a bunch of us had the following conversation (and this is pretty close to the order in which things appeared):

• The Revolution is Over … from Cognitive Dissonance (Nathan Lowell)
• Writing and Blogging from Learning Rocks (Johannes Stroebel)
• Writing, Blogging, Publishing…If we fail to do that, do the ideas perish? from Midquel: Neither prequel nor sequel nor interquel (Heather Tillberg)
• Never Again from Lessig Blog (Lawrence Lessig)
• Research and Publication from The Program (Michael Barbour)
• ©opy”right” from Midquel: Neither prequel nor sequel nor interquel (Heather Tillberg)
• What's in a Name?" from Cognitive Dissonance (Nathan Lowell)
• This whole publishing racket... from Breaking into the Academy (Michael Barbour)
• Do we need pre-’publication’ review at all? from Learning Rocks (Johannes Stroebel)
• Not breaking into, but breaking open… from Midquel: Neither prequel nor sequel nor interquel (Heather Tillberg)
• The Pitch from Cognitive Dissonance (Nathan Lowell)
• Editorial Post-publication review from Learning Rocks (Johannes Stroebel)
• Reviving the journal discussion & ghost-blogging for Johannes from Cultivating Minds (Heather Tillberg)
• Next Generation Journal from Cognitive Dissonance (Nathan Lowell)
• Mixing Old and New Models from Emerging Perceptions (David Miller)
• Publication Pothole from Cognitive Dissonance (Nathan Lowell)
• How Many Is Enough? from Cognitive Dissonance (Nathan Lowell)

Okay... Now that you are up to speed (or re-freshed - depending on whether or not you followed the original conversation), I am current at the 19th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies and just left this session:

Mentoring Qualitative Research Authors Globally: The Qualitative Report Experience
Ronald J. Chenail, Nova Southeastern University

Authoring quality qualitative inquiry is a challenge for most researchers. A lack of local mentors can make writing even more difficult. To meet this need, The Qualitative Report (TQR) has helped authors from around the world develop their papers into published articles. TQR editorial team members will discuss their philosophy of author development; challenges working worldwide; solutions for managing differences; manuscript development strategies; authors’ feedback; and the collective global futures of TQR and qualitative researchers.

TQR's manuscript development strategies from initial submission to final publication
Sally St. George ,University of Louisville

TQR's philosophy of author and manuscript development: The place of openness,
acceptance, and respect
Dan Wulff, University of Louisville

Using authors’ feedback to create a mentoring of the mentors’ relationship for TQR's editorial team
Mareen Duffy, Barry University

Challenges of working with authors worldwide and solutions for managing experience, culture,
language, and technology differences
Martha Laughlin, Valdosta State University

Challenges of working with authors worldwide and solutions for managing experience, culture,
language, and technology differences
Kate Warner, Valdosta State University

TQR's manuscript development strategies from initial submission to final publication
Tarmeen Sahni, Nova Southeastern University

Sitting through this session, I was reminder of the conversation that I tried to trace above. If you go and look at their Article Submission Guidelines and A Guide for TQR Authors (particularly this second link), while it isn't exactly what we were driving at in the conversation above, it is a step in the right direction.

Their paper for this was a wonderful description of the e-journal and its publication process - which I will be contacting them to get their permission to post or link (if they have it online) here. But in any regard, I was thinking that this process described by The Qualitative Report may be a starting point for getting this conversation going again.

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