Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Revise and resubmit

When I was still in graduate school, I considered a publication decision of "revise and resubmit" a rejection. Now, I get excited about such decisions. First of all the reviewer comments usually help you make a better product. Second, sometimes the reviewer comments give you ideas for new research projects. Third, if you address the reviewer comments and put in the work, you can have a publication at the end. That all is exciting.
What excited me most about the revise and resubmit decision I recieved today was that it is an article I co-authored with two students as a result of a class I taught last year. It makes me feel like the course actually accomplished something. A class project that a colleague did with his grad course just got published in MLJ. I think that is just awesome and would love to be able to provide that experience to my students one day, too.

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