''Catchy, clever titles are not acceptable'': Style, APA, and qualitative reporting

Zeller, Nancy; Farmer, Frank

doi:10.1080/095183999236303

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“…134-135). In line with Van Mannen's (1995) pleas, scholars have observed how metaphors, narratives, and other rhetorical techniques can breathe life into the otherwise dispassionate prose of the academic (Oswick, Keenoy, & Grant, 2002;Phillips, 1995;Zeller & Farmer, 1999). Some have singled out the work of Karl Weick as an example of academic writing that, thankfully, does not play by traditional rules (Czarniawska, 2005;Gioia, 2006).…”

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Changing the Tune of Academic Writing: Muting Cognitive Entrenchment

Dane

2011

Journal of Management Inquiry

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Much academic writing sounds the same-stilted, distant, and overly qualified. The "sound" of academic writing is primarily the result of institutional pressures that lead authors to become cognitively entrenched in their writing style. The author of this article suggests that we not only can but should mute cognitive entrenchment and change the tune of academic writing. The author also suggests three routes for doing so-writing for nonacademic audiences, writing creatively, and reading widely-and addresses possible objections to his appeal.

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Changing the Tune of Academic Writing: Muting Cognitive Entrenchment

Dane

2011

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Given the defining characteristics of qualitative research, the result is a miserable failure when qualitative studies are evaluated using quantitative concepts of validity and reliability. This lack of fit extends to issues such as the difficulty in presenting qualitative work in accordance with American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines for publication, and the larger amount of journal space required to adequately present qualitative material (Goldman, 1993; Rogers, 2000; Zeller & Farmer, 1999). Related to the above-mentioned problems is the way in which qualitative research is frequently used to communicate the experiences of politically marginal individuals or groups, possibly creating resistance from dominant cultural groups (Lather, 1991).…”

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The role of qualitative research in psychological journals.

Kidd¹

2002

Psychological Methods

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The acceptance of qualitative research in 15 journals published and distributed by the American Psychological Association (APA) was investigated. This investigation included a PsycINFO search using the keyword qualitative, an analysis of 15 APA journals for frequency of qualitative publication, a content analysis of the journal descriptions, and the results of qualitative interviews with 10 of the chief editors of those journals. The results indicate that there exists a substantial amount of interest in the potential contribution of qualitative methods in major psychological journals, although this interest is not ubiquitous, well defined, or communicated. These findings highlight the need for APA to state its position regarding the applicability of qualitative methods in the study of psychology.

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“…Using keywords only allows for a more accurate analysis than using titles also, as approach to generating titles for articles has changed in the last few decades. In the past, the titles were required to accurately reflect the content of the article (Zeller & Farmer, 1999). Now authors have much more freedom, so titles are much more subject to individual choice and author's creativity (Jixian & Jun, 2015).…”

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Searching for coherence in a fragmented field: Temporal and keywords network analysis in political science

Zaytsev¹,

Kuskova

Khvatsky

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Net Sci

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In this paper, we answer the multiple calls for systematic analysis of paradigms and subdisciplines in political science—the search for coherence within a fragmented field. We collected a large dataset of over seven hundred thousand writings in political science from Web of Science since 1946. We found at least two waves of political science development, from behaviorism to new institutionalism. Political science appeared to be more fragmented than literature suggests—instead of ten subdisciplines, we found 66 islands. However, despite fragmentation, there is also a tendency for integration in contemporary political science, as revealed by co-existence of several paradigms and coherent and interconnected topics of the “canon of political science,” as revealed by the core-periphery structure of topic networks. This was the first large-scale investigation of the entire political science field, possibly due to newly developed methods of bibliometric network analysis: temporal bibliometric analysis and island methods of clustering. Methodological contribution of this work to network science is evaluation of islands method of network clustering against a hierarchical cluster analysis for its ability to remove misleading information, allowing for a more meaningful clustering of large weighted networks.

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''Catchy, clever titles are not acceptable'': Style, APA, and qualitative reporting

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Changing the Tune of Academic Writing: Muting Cognitive Entrenchment

Changing the Tune of Academic Writing: Muting Cognitive Entrenchment

The role of qualitative research in psychological journals.

Searching for coherence in a fragmented field: Temporal and keywords network analysis in political science

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