Online ethnography and Word Counts
I welcome any advice (off list, or on if thought to be of general interest). In communications, most journals have a word count limit of 7-8K. Even IJoC, an online journal not limited by paper constraints, is 9K. I generally support word count limits, but I have a draft wherein I excerpt and reference a lot of online discourse. I started at 11K words of prose, obviously far too long. After much slashing of clumsy prose, sacrificing of interesting digressions, and paraphrasing and cutting of cherished excerpts, I got it down to 8K. However, the bibliography is still about 2K (800 words of offline -- mostly secondary -- sources, and 900 words of online -- mostly primary -- sources). What are some options to being in such a pickle? * Are there reputable (even print) based journals that permit ~10K? * Perhaps in different disciplines (related to ethnography?)? * Or that distinguish between prose and bibliography (i.e., one can always print the bib really small)? * Break paper into pieces? (Always an option, but doesn't work for me here). * Host the primary sources online, but not in article? * Only provide URLs to those exclusively online sources. (The counts above already reflect this, and I did this in the print version of my book's bibliography.) * ... ? -- Regards, Joseph Reagle http://reagle.org/joseph/ (Perhaps using speech recognition, sorry for any speakos.)
I always thought the bibliography was not part of the word count. I believe that's how it is in health sciences / public health. Perhaps it is different in communications? I would be interested to know. Cheers Monica Monica Barratt http://monicabarratt.net On 28 April 2011 03:06, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> wrote:
I welcome any advice (off list, or on if thought to be of general interest).
In communications, most journals have a word count limit of 7-8K. Even IJoC, an online journal not limited by paper constraints, is 9K.
I generally support word count limits, but I have a draft wherein I excerpt and reference a lot of online discourse. I started at 11K words of prose, obviously far too long. After much slashing of clumsy prose, sacrificing of interesting digressions, and paraphrasing and cutting of cherished excerpts, I got it down to 8K. However, the bibliography is still about 2K (800 words of offline -- mostly secondary -- sources, and 900 words of online -- mostly primary -- sources).
What are some options to being in such a pickle?
* Are there reputable (even print) based journals that permit ~10K? * Perhaps in different disciplines (related to ethnography?)? * Or that distinguish between prose and bibliography (i.e., one can always print the bib really small)? * Break paper into pieces? (Always an option, but doesn't work for me here). * Host the primary sources online, but not in article? * Only provide URLs to those exclusively online sources. (The counts above already reflect this, and I did this in the print version of my book's bibliography.) * ... ?
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