{"id":82,"date":"2014-06-16T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2014-06-16T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:34:00","slug":"common-problems-while-writing-for-journal-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/common-problems-while-writing-for-journal-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Common problems while writing for journal publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No theory<\/span><\/i><i>: <\/i>it involves a lack of explanation of variable relationships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Concepts and operationalistaion not being in alignment with each other<\/span><\/i>: this problem surfaces when the research design is not reflecting the variables under current study which could be because of differences in analysis level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Insufficient definition<\/span><\/i>: when the authors are not explaining the meaning of their concepts, moreover when enacting a definition becomes a part of development of theory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Insufficient rationale-design<\/span><\/i>: there are times when the manuscripts fail to explain the methods or procedures which have been used in the study. This could be size, rate of response and insufficient detail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Macrostructure-flow and organisation<\/span><\/i>: it is important that various parts of the paper like theory, section, conclusion, methods fit into a coherent whole. Problems may arise if this does not happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Not relevant to the field:<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 when the papers are inappropriate for the type of journal they are submitted to and can better be placed in another discipline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Inadequate research design<\/span><\/i>: the research question that is posed by the study is not being able to be addressed by the current use of methods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Over engineering<\/span><\/i>: there is so much concentration on methodology sometimes which becomes an end itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conclusions not in alignment<\/span><\/i>: this kind of problem can occur when manuscripts where conclusions are either too short or lack complete interpretation of the findings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cutting up the data<\/span><\/i>: when one paper under review for one journal overlaps with another paper by same writers under review for another journal, another problem of this kind comes up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No theory: it involves a lack of explanation of variable relationships. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Concepts and operationalistaion not being in alignment with each other: this problem surfaces when the research design is not reflecting the variables under current study which could be because of differences in analysis level. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Insufficient definition: when the authors are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proposal-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoringhigh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}