Chapter 13: Getting Published and Doing Research

After five to six (or more) years of hard work, you have finally completed your doctoral studies and landed a tenure-track position of your dreams in the foreign land you now call home, and you feel that you have learned how to do research and how to write in a second language. You have the proof of a thick dissertation! You are relieved and you are about to relax. Then you go to the first faculty orientation meeting; you hear about the complex tenure and promotion process and you are told “publish or perish;” your sense of success and relief quickly dissipates. You enter another state of urgency, and you realize that getting a Ph.D. was just the beginning of a long path ahead, and you need to know how to publish your research to make your work known to scholars other than your dissertation committee members in a relatively short period of time, as the next review of your performance is just one year away!