Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018)
Editorial

On rejection; or, If you’ve alarmed a journal editor, you must be on to something

Mark McCutcheon
Bio

Published 2017-03-23

How to Cite

McCutcheon, M. (2017). On rejection; or, If you’ve alarmed a journal editor, you must be on to something. Journal of Integrated Studies, 10(1). Retrieved from https://jis.athabascau.ca/index.php/jis/article/view/263

Abstract

About two years into my doctoral studies, I had an article on Romantic literature ready for submitting to scholarly journals. I submitted it to two journals—not simultaneously (a no-no in scholarly publishing), but one after the other—and got two drastically different responses: the first was an unequivocal rejection; the next was an invitation to revise and resubmit. The first journal’s rejection letter has become one of my favourite rejection letters, but I don’t know whether I’d feel that way if the second journal hadn’t eventually accepted and published the article.