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Tell the story: How to write for American Ethnologist
Author(s) -
BESNIER NIKO,
MORALES PABLO
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/amet.12629
Subject(s) - discoverability , ethnography , citation , sociology , sociocultural evolution , epistemology , relevance (law) , academic writing , metadiscourse , publishing , linguistics , computer science , anthropology , literature , library science , philosophy , world wide web , pedagogy , law , art , political science
To write a successful article for a major anthropology journal, authors can employ a number of strategies. The first and most essential is to familiarize themselves with the journal's mission. For AE , authors must ground their arguments in current debates in the discipline, make a clear contribution to anthropological theory, support this contribution with ethnography, and demonstrate its relevance to contemporary sociocultural problems. Moreover, AE authors must cite other authors appropriately, cohesively structure the article, and avoid various problems that afflict much of academic writing—such as evasive metadiscourse, inflated diction, serial citation, and unnecessary literature reviews. To maximize the article's online discoverability, authors should judiciously compose their titles and abstracts and carefully choose their accompanying keywords. [ writing , composition, publishing , editing , theory , ethnography , American Ethnologist ]