These resources support faculty interested in writing and publishing SoTL, from getting started to preparing a manuscript for submission. They offer practical guidance, examples, and insights into developing a strong SoTL story, finding publication venues, and structuring articles.
Kennesaw State's teaching center maintains a director of journals that publish SoTL.
One of our go-to resources, we appreciate the ability to search for journals based on discipline and topic. See also their directory of SoTL conferences.
This living document provides a list of SoTL, discipline-based, and higher education journals. Also included are a list of searchable journal websites and information about journal metrics.
We collected and curated these journals based on our own go-to lists and recommendations from fellow scholars publishing SoTL.
This article summarizes different types of articles, along with a process for getting started with the writing and submitting process. The authors also provide a set of guiding questions for integrating one’s values and disciplinary modes of inquiry into the writing process.
We appreciate the practical suggestions and alignment with values this article brings to the conversation about SoTL writing for peer reviewed journals. If you want to dig deeper into these ideas, check out the associated book Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
This post provides a list of tips from an author and past editor about preparing and submitting a SoTL article for publication.
We appreciate how the author provides their perspective on the writing, submission, and review process and find a lot of good tips that can translate across SoTL genres. The author also notes the importance of alignment between article and journal, something we ensure we attend to in our own work and strongly recommend to others!
This chapter summarizes general writing guidelines that apply across disciplines and provides concrete ideas to aid authors in strengthening their SoTL story.
This article is a great resource if you need ideas for improving writing mechanics and flow.
This collection of annotated published articles provides author insights on where particular components of SoTL show up in an article, including Background, Definitions, Instructional practice, Research design, and Writing tips.
We particularly appreciate the ability to 1) turn on and off the different annotations types (i.e., Learning Lenses) within each article and 2) hover over highlighted sections to see author insights. The Writing Tips annotations are particularly insightful to get a behind the scenes understanding of the writing process from the authors perspective.
This annotated article provides the author’s perspective on where various components of an empirical article show up in a peer reviewed publication such as the purpose, participants, and terms/definitions. Also included are annotations around organization and alignment as well as author notes that explain the reasoning behind certain choices.
If you’re unsure of how to take your SoTL work and develop your SoTL story, this article helps you get under the hood of that process. This resource is helpful to point out the importance of alignment throughout a SoTL article.
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