Recently, Professor Mu Congjun's English monograph Understanding Chinese Multilingual Scholars' Experiences of Writing and Publishing in English: A Social-Cognitive Perspective has been published by Palgrave Macmillan, an internationally renowned publisher. This monograph is part of a project funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Research on Writing and Publishing English Academic Journal Papers by Chinese Scholars under the Threshold of Cross-cultural Rhetoric (14BYY151) and the National Scholarship Council (NSC), Research on the Voice of Academic Discourse (201808310009).
The book takes the increasingly fierce competition for international academic publication and the international applied linguistics research on academic publication in English as the background, constructs a social-cognitive theoretical framework of international journal paper writing and publication, adopts an ethnographic case study design method, investigates the international journal paper writing and publication experiences of 118 scholars in 18 universities in Shanghai, and conducts an in-depth case study analysis on the writing and publication strategies of four of them. The book is an in-depth analysis of four scholars' writing and publishing strategies, and a model of writing and publishing strategies including discourse, metacognitive, cognitive, social, and emotional strategies are summarized and refined. The book is considered by academic experts to be a timely addition to the research on Chinese scholars' experiences in writing and publishing international journal articles in the field of applied linguistics in the form of a monograph. It helps graduate students and young scholars to improve the quality and level of their English dissertation writing and can be used as a reference for researchers in the fields of applied linguistics, academic English, and second language writing.
(Reported by the College of Foreign Languages office; Translated by Li Huixian)
