Sending the manuscript: time to pray! 14 May 2007
Posted by neny in My events.trackback
I’ve been terribly busy for the last three days to edit my Master thesis to be submitted as a chapter for the forthcoming “Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition“, edited by Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott of University of Birmingham/UK and Patricia Lupion Torres of Universidade Catolica do Parana/Brazil, published by Idea Group, Inc.
It was crazy! It was definitely not easy to cut down more than 50,000 words into mere 7,500 words in three days. Not to mention my reluctance in deleting information that I felt somewhat necessary to include, but it had to go! Still, I ended up having 7,632 words. Finally, at 3: 30 AM, I was just too tired of cutting words and omitting tiny but relevant details, and I decided to send it to the editors.
I barely met the deadline of submission when I submitted it this morning. According to my time (which is GMT +7), I submitted it right on May 15, instead of BEFORE May 15. But the editors live in UK and Brazil, which are behind Indonesia time (ha!), so I cheated the devil 
I’m not sure if they even will accept my submission, because it was a late submission and I didn’t comply with the guideline on the number of words for the manuscript. Wishing that it will be selected for the book chapter is even too ambitious, especially when I have to compete with this person, and being reviewed by this person.
It’s time to hope and pray!
Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!)(update at 12:45 PM) Got an email from the editors. They received the submission (phew!) and forwarded it to reviewers for blind review and evaluation. Maybe it will turn out that they love every single punctuation in it (yeah right!) or maybe they will delete the file immediately after reading it, followed by a series of vomiting (of course, drama, drama, drama). By all means, I’m hoping for publication due to my narcissistic tendency (reading my name on the list of contributors is awesome), but more importantly I want my academic work to contribute on the whatever-you-name-it advancement of knowledge in my field.
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