Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success - Boost Research Impact & Career Growth | Perfect for PhD Students & Early Career Researchers

I used this book with a writing partner, as suggested. I'm over three weeks in and enjoying it so far. I appreciate her step-by-step approach and the use of a writing partner.KINDLE EDITION IMPERFECTFor those interested in purchasing it, I wanted to note that the Kindle edition is imperfect, as indicated by other readers. For instance, the weekly tables that have the writing goals note "read until" sections by page numbers, which do not exist in the Kindle edition. Also, I suspect some of the sections to read are really supposed to be boxed off "additional information" as sometimes I felt the flow of the writing was choppy -- pages and pages of explanation on specific examples and then suddenly hitting a very short page with the day's assignment. It is likely that these issues would be easier to navigate in the print edition (with appropriate print distinctions) and the ability to physically flip back and forth, but it does make for some tricky reading within the Kindle edition. For instance, you might hit a huge amount of text that you're not sure if you're supposed to read for the day's assignment.Another example of odd Kindle formatting would be in the 2nd week, where you don't read till the very end of the chapter that you should be taking notes on your daily routine. Granted, you might have been doing this out of your own volition due to the earlier reference to time tracking in Week 1, but if you were just using the book and reading what you needed to bit by bit, you will have missed this until reading it at the end of Week 2.However, given that the Kindle edition is about half the cost of buying the actual book, and is very portable as an eBook, so I believe I (and many other PhD students) will be resigned to dealing with the little issues for the sake of our pocketbooks and convenience. And let's be honest, as a grad student, there's plenty of inconvenient stuff we have to put up with in our day to day lives, it's really not a big deal to have to deal with a book.DOES REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT TIMEFinally, I have to agree with another reviewer that the amount of time Ms. Belcher requires is a very lowball estimate. There is no time given for additional data analysis (assuming that most of what you need to do is a rewriting of previously written paper) and even the exercises can take you a good amount of time (in addition to the writing and editing on the paper that you are supposed to be doing). My partner and I have started tracking the time we spent on the assignments as it is not insignificant (1.5 to 3 hours a day), and we haven't hit the serious re-writing of the paper yet. Then again, you can't really expect a publishable journal article over 12 weeks in just 30 min a day, can you?I will update when we are done with the program and let you know if my thoughts have changed!