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Luiselli, J.K. (2010). Writing for publication: A performance enhancement guide for the human services professional. Behavior Modification, 34(5). 459-473.
More human services professionals need to write for publication in peer-reviewed journals. This article discusses some of the perceived obstacles to writing for publication and how to overcome them by implementing a performance enhancement plan. By following a few basic guidelines, practitioners can write productively, publish their work successfully, and contribute meaningful findings, opinions, and recommendations to the professional community.

Ault, R.L. (1991). What goes where? An activity to teach the organization of journal articles. Teaching of Psychology, 18(1). 45-46.
Writing APA-style journal articles or research reports is a complicated task for undergraduates because they are creating and organizing the prose while trying to follow format conventions. The homework assignment described in this article is used to teach one component of the task: organizing the information within major headings. I distribute the contents of a short journal article in scrambled order, with instructions to unscramble the order of paragraphs and to determine the location of headings under which the paragraphs belong. Diagnosis of errors allows instructors to determine where additional teaching is needed and highlights for students some writing conventions.

Encyclopedia Articles

“Writing.” Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. (2004): 1198-1199.
Like all language, writing is a constitutive force that creates a particular view of reality and inscribes particular values. Styles of writing reflect historically shifting paradigms; social scientific writing, like all other writing, is a sociohistorical construction, neither immutable nor dispassionate. Writing in the social sciences is a site of contestation. How one writes, what one writes, and for whom one writes are theoretical, ethical, and methodological issues, sometimes referred to as “the crisis in representation” (Clifford & Marcus, 1986).