Becoming a reviewer: Insights from the student and editorial boards of ESPJ

IF 3.2 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1016/j.esp.2023.06.003

Averil Coxhead , Jordan Batchelor , Onesmo Mushi , Xixin Qiu , Sunny Hyon

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Abstract

Reviewing is an important task in one's academic career. Learning the skills and gaining practice are often overlooked activities in postgraduate education programmes. English for Specific Purposes instituted a Student Editorial Board (SEB) in 2022 and tasked two new Associate Editors to provide mentorship in reviewing over the course of a year. This paper focuses on the key questions which arose through mentoring meetings, such as the processes a paper goes through before it gets sent out for review and how to frame critical and supportive reviews. It also discusses the development of skills through membership in the SEB, drawing on reviews drafted individually over the year and one-on-one mentoring sessions, as well as feedback and group meetings with SEB members, Associate Editors and a very experienced board member. The paper ends with suggestions on how early career academics might become reviewers and ways to approach and respond to a paper as a reviewer. The paper demonstrates that offering SEB positions in journals is beneficial for postgraduate students, editors and the field overall.

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成为审稿人:来自ESPJ学生和编辑委员会的见解

复习是一个人学术生涯中的一项重要任务。在研究生教育方案中，学习技能和获得实践往往被忽视。《特定用途英语》于2022年成立了学生编辑委员会（SEB），并指派两名新的副编辑在一年的时间里提供复习指导。本文重点讨论了辅导会议中出现的关键问题，例如论文在提交审查之前所经历的过程，以及如何制定关键和支持性审查。它还讨论了通过加入SEB，利用一年来单独起草的审查和一对一辅导会议，以及与SEB成员、副编辑和经验丰富的董事会成员的反馈和小组会议，来发展技能。论文最后提出了早期职业学者如何成为评审员的建议，以及作为评审员对待和回应论文的方法。论文表明，在期刊上提供SEB职位对研究生、编辑和整个领域都是有益的。

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English for Specific Purposes LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

5.70

自引率

8.00%

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审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.