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From dissertation to published article: Advice from an editor

On occasion, I have used this editorial space as place to offer unsolicited advice to potential contributors and future QSW authors. For example, early in our tenure as editors, Michal Krumer-Nevo and I wrote an editorial on successful publishing of qualitative studies (Staller and Krumer-Nevo, 2013). Our advice boiled down to five key points: know your reading audience; write well; don’t confuse methods with methodology; present your methodology as a coherent, consistent, and an integrated whole; impose intellectual discipline; and, finally, attend to balancing creativity and rigor in both the written product and methods employed. Several years later, I returned to the topic of advice in an editorial on the art of bridging relationships (Staller, 2015b). I cautioned would-be writers about losing the connection between parts of a manuscript at several key junctures where logical links can get lost and I urged writers to attend to those transitions. Shortly after, at the request of a group of young scholars, I took up the challenge of “moving beyond description” in qualitative analysis (Staller, 2015a). This effort resulted in an editorial suggesting seven strategies to new scholars. They were: switching the unit of analysis; considering the temporal or process ordering of information; attending to the structure within the empirical evidence itself; considering institutional actors and relationships; linking to external environments, culture, and politics; capitalizing on happy accidents and unexpected gifts; and finally, linking things that might not seem obviously related. I continue to stand by these previous editorial essays, yet I find myself returning to the topic of offering advice, this time motivated by a new impetus. Increasingly, the pressure to “publish or perish”—a mantra commonly repeated among faculty at universities—has filtered down to the level of students, most notably doctoral students.