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Writing, Evaluation and Publishing

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The Research Process

World (of tourism)

Tourism Knowledge THE

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Structure

•Writing

•Evaluation

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The Problem 3

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The Challenge

Making our writing:

• Compelling

• Beautiful

• Elegant

• Edward Said – make it like a symphony

• Texture

• Cadence

• Movements

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Title

• Academic • Informative • Concise • Creative • Enigmatic • Google-ability

• The Indiscipline of Tourism

• The Philosophic Practitioner

• Tourism: A Critical Business

• Tribes, Territories and Networks in Tourism Studies

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e-Abstract: Technical Issues

•Problem statement

•The focus of previous research literature

•Your distinctive approach

•Your methods or data sources/datasets

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Introduction as Overture

Verdi’s La Traviata

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Death by Literature Review

• These are often very DULL

• Unengaging

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Literature Review: Technical Issues

•The literature must be critically reviewed and its relevance to the research question established.

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Literature Review: Tips

• How / why did you choose your literature?

• Be critical not just descriptive

• Group into key concepts / theories and explain this

• Find and explain patterns

• Compare / contrast / synthesise

• Find gaps

• Always relate to your RQ

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Link Between Literature Review

and Research Sections

• Bridge

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Bridge

• A bridge brings together

•ROs

•Key Literature

•Key Concepts

•Research Instrument

RO Lit Concepts Research

Instrument

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Findings

•Presentation of findings

•Strong Narrative

•Critical analysis / interpretation of findings

•Discussion against literature.

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Getting lost in findings

• Too much data

• Bogged down in detail

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Tip:

• What are the five really important things you found out?

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Haydn’s Creation

“Let there be light, and there was light”

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Contribution to Knowledge

•CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE eg.

Devise a model of the tourism area life cycle (Butler) Construct the tourism knowledge system (Tribe)

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Contribution to Knowledge

•VERB •Devise •Construct •Re-think •Prove •Reconceptualise •Reveal •Create

•Develop and test

•Discover •NOUN •Model •System •Concept •Theory •Method •Practice •Situation •Problem •Typology

•EXPLANATION / CONTEXT

•Tourism Area Life Cycle

•Tourism Knowledge

•Authenticity

•Gravity

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Contribution to Knowledge

•VERB •Invent •Build •Challenge •Solve •Refute •Verify •Revise •Design •Uncover •Find •NOUN •Principle •Idea •Prototype •Solution •Technique •Cause •Knowledge •Understanding •Idea •Procedure

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

• To what extent does the thesis make a

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

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Evaluation

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Know your journals

• ATR • TM • JTR • JST • JOHLSTE

• Top Tier

• Middle Tier

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Total articles / acceptance rate

Editorial (EES/EM)

Articles received and processed by the Editorial Office (previous year's values in brackets for comparison).

Subm. Final disposition

Month Articles Articles Articles Processing times (in weeks) Results

w/o

review Subm. to 1st decn.

Auth. rev. time

Sub. to

fin. disp. Withdrawn Accepted Rejected Rejec. rate

Total 544

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My first impressions

•Plagiarism?

•Title

• Abstract

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What are the quality criteria by

which Annals’ papers are judged?

• An Annals’ paper must be

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The quality criteria

• Scope

• Significance

• Originality

• Rigour

• Threshold

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Scope

•Submissions must fall with the aims and scope of the journal. Annals of Tourism Research is a social sciences journal focusing on academic

perspectives on tourism. Submissions must be able to clearly articulate how they satisfy both the social science and tourism test. This will normally be by reference to an underpinning by one or more social science disciplines and/or methods and a

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Significance

Significance will be understood in terms of

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Originality

Originality will be understood in terms of the innovative character of the research output.

Research outputs that demonstrate originality may: engage with new and/or complex problems;

develop innovative research methods,

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Rigour

Rigour will be understood in terms of the intellectual precision, robustness and

appropriateness of the concepts, analyses,

theories and methodologies deployed within a research output. Account will be taken of such qualities as the integrity, coherence and

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Thresholds

• Of publishable standard: Demonstrates a level of significance rigour and originality that meets

international standards of excellence. Enhances theory, knowledge, policy or practice of the social science of tourism and is likely to become an

important point of reference in tourism research. Elegantly written with clarity and insight.

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Desk Reject

•Annals papers need to convey a “big new social science idea” in a straightforward way and the "big new idea” is not clear here.

•Annals papers have to demonstrate a high level of originality. The title / theme of this paper is too

similar that which is already available in the existing literature.

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•Deals with quite specific issues rather than broader Annals' type tourism issues.

• Proceeds by the testing of a number of small/specific hypotheses. This procedure

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• Does not provide a high level of engagement with theories and ideas.

• This study is what might be termed "another case of something". It applies existing theories to a new activity and/or market segment and/or

geographical area. Such articles are useful in

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•The research design and execution of this paper fall short of the standards required by this journal. Broadly, qualitative research must offer a thick, deep and original understanding of phenomena, quantitative research must deploy effective

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•This paper falls short of Annals’ standards in

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The Review / Decision Process

• Double Blind Review

• Reviewers can be suggested by the system

• The role of the resource editor

• Reject: Try not to write me an angry email telling me that me, or the journal or the editors are fools.

• R & R

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The Reflexive Journal

• What should I be researching to be published in Annals?

• Expertise – economists vs Gen T

• Commodification of Annals

• Job driven

• Incentive driven

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The Reflexive Journal

• Reflexive editorials

• Produces a rich and dynamic flow of knowledge production

• The editorial team represents a broad range of disciplines.

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The Reflexive Journal

• On the other hand, despite recent attempts to improve the situation a gender imbalance

remains on the editorial team.

• There are still some geographical areas that are under represented on the editorial team.

• Journal articles are over represented from some geographical regions and under represented

from others: Anglocentrism

• Some voices appear marginalised and silent.

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Final reflexive note

•This is not tourism

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