2014

Academic writing is daunting. I submitted my first manuscript for scholarly review in 1992. Although I had breezed through my writing intensive undergraduate and graduate degrees, and I had completed my dissertation, as a new assistant professor, I knew absolutely nothing about academic writing intricacies or protocol. I spent months toiling over my first manuscript. I sacrificed nearly all my free time to ensure a thoughtful, well-cited, and clinically relevant piece. I knew it would be published. Certainly, the manuscript would rock the scholarly world, establish my reputation as a rising scholar, and catapult me toward my ultimate goal—promotion and tenure. Regretfully, this was not the case.