Comments on: Should I Write Multiple-Part Papers? http://eloquentscience.com/2009/08/do-multiple-part-papers-work/ Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:40:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Prof. David M. Schultz http://eloquentscience.com/2009/08/do-multiple-part-papers-work/#comment-28 Prof. David M. Schultz Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:27:02 +0000 http://eloquentscience.com/?p=160#comment-28 Thanks for your excellent comment about the difficulties of writing a multipart papers, Grant. Where would we be? The same place we are now...an series of 16 fine scientific articles that have shorter titles without "Part <I>N</I> in the titles and that truly stand alone. ;-) Thanks for your excellent comment about the difficulties of writing a multipart papers, Grant.

Where would we be? The same place we are now…an series of 16 fine scientific articles that have shorter titles without “Part N in the titles and that truly stand alone. ;-)

]]> By: Grant Petty http://eloquentscience.com/2009/08/do-multiple-part-papers-work/#comment-25 Grant Petty Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:22:41 +0000 http://eloquentscience.com/?p=160#comment-25 As one who has published multipart papers myself, I think this is pretty good advice. It's awkward when you set out to publish a three-part connected series and you make explicit reference to "Part III" but only get around to submitting Parts I and II before moving on to something else. Beginner's mistake. That said, I think it is possible, and sometimes even desirable, to publish truly independent papers that are nevertheless bound together by a common major title drawing attention to their unifying them. Where would we be without Peter Hobbs' 16-part series in JAS on "The Mesoscale and Microscale Structure and Organization of Clouds and Precipitation in Midlatitude Cyclones."? As one who has published multipart papers myself, I think this is pretty good advice. It’s awkward when you set out to publish a three-part connected series and you make explicit reference to “Part III” but only get around to submitting Parts I and II before moving on to something else. Beginner’s mistake.

That said, I think it is possible, and sometimes even desirable, to publish truly independent papers that are nevertheless bound together by a common major title drawing attention to their unifying them. Where would we be without Peter Hobbs’ 16-part series in JAS on “The Mesoscale and Microscale Structure and Organization of Clouds and Precipitation in Midlatitude Cyclones.”?

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