How Peer Review Actually Works (And Why You Should Care)
????️ GUESTS:Dawn Magnusson & Rachel Prusynski – PTJ Editorial Team???? EPISODE SUMMARY:Is peer review really that scary? This special CSM 2026 preview pulls back the curtain on academic publishing with two editors from PTJ. Whether you're a clinician, student, or early-career researcher, you'll learn how to start writing, reviewing, and contributing to the scholarly conversation in physical therapy.???? Topics covered:* Why PTs avoid peer review (and why they shouldn’t)* The surprising benefits of being a reviewer* Where new writers should start (even if they’re not researchers)* How PTJ is creating a more inclusive publishing pipeline* The emotional side of submitting your first article* “Game time” insights from two seasoned editors???? CSM Session Info:Behind the Red Ink: Demystifying Peer Review and Empowering Emerging Scholars???? Friday, February 13, 2026 | ???? 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM???? Room 163, ACC North – Anaheim Convention Center???? Sponsored by:* Pre-roll: SaRA Health – https://sarahealth.com (https://sarahealth.com)* Mid-roll: Empower EMR – https://empoweremr.com (https://empoweremr.com)* Pre-parting shot: US Physical Therapy – https://usph.com (https://usph.com)
????️ GUESTS:
Dawn Magnusson & Rachel Prusynski – PTJ Editorial Team
???? EPISODE SUMMARY:
Is peer review really that scary? This special CSM 2026 preview pulls back the curtain on academic publishing with two editors from PTJ. Whether you're a clinician, student, or early-career researcher, you'll learn how to start writing, reviewing, and contributing to the scholarly conversation in physical therapy.
???? Topics covered:
- Why PTs avoid peer review (and why they shouldn’t)
- The surprising benefits of being a reviewer
- Where new writers should start (even if they’re not researchers)
- How PTJ is creating a more inclusive publishing pipeline
- The emotional side of submitting your first article
- “Game time” insights from two seasoned editors
???? CSM Session Info:
Behind the Red Ink: Demystifying Peer Review and Empowering Emerging Scholars
???? Friday, February 13, 2026 | ???? 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
???? Room 163, ACC North – Anaheim Convention Center
???? Sponsored by:
- Pre-roll: SaRA Health – https://sarahealth.com
- Mid-roll: Empower EMR – https://empoweremr.com
- Pre-parting shot: US Physical Therapy – https://usph.com
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At this year's CSM,
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I love doing the preview episodes.
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It's the movie before the movie.
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We've got a group that are pulling back
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the curtain on the academic publishing
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process.
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Think, you know,
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do not pay attention to the man behind
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the curtain.
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It's all about us.
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To help clinicians, students,
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and researchers understand how to get
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published.
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how to review like a pro,
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and how to break into the scholarly
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conversation.
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If you've ever felt like academic
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publishing was too complex, too exclusive,
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or just not for you,
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this conversation might just flip that
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belief.
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And wouldn't that be fun?
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Let's bring in our guests,
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Rachel and Dawn, to the program.
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Ladies, welcome to the show.
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All right.
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So love the fact that you were doing
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this because when I saw this on the
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docket, I was like, yeah,
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I have no idea how this happens.
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I have seen a bunch of memes that
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talk about like reviewer two.
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For some reason,
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reviewer two is always the mean one.
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I don't know.
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I don't want to get into that one.
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But let's start this with like, why?
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So why?
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Feel free.
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I'll drop the question like a hockey
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referee and you guys can both answer it.
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Decide who goes first.
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What inspired PTJ to create a session like
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this?
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Love name, by the way,
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behind the red ink,
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the dreaded red ink pen.
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So what was the inspiration?
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What's the big W?
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What's the why?
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Yeah, I can take that one first,
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if that's OK, Rachel.
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We talked about this.
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I think for me,
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having been on the author side of
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publications and things like that,
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it just seemed like a really scary process
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to get into.
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We work so hard.
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Everyone works so hard.
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They pour their blood, sweat,
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and tears into these papers,
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into these manuscripts.
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And then you put it out there for
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people to critique and to judge.
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And, and that's really a scary thing.
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And I know when I first was doing
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that,
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you get that first paper back and it's
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just covered in that red ink.
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People hate it.
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It was terrible.
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Maybe you got rejected and it's just
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horrible.
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nobody wants to feel that right.
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And so,
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but I didn't really know who was on
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the other side of that,
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making those decisions.
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And so we kind of came together.
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We thought,
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wouldn't it be a good idea to sort
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of, again, look behind the red ink,
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like you said,
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pull back the curtain to see, you know,
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we're just real people trying to do a
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thing to help promote our profession,
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to promote research within our profession,
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within our field.
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And so it's an opportunity hopefully to
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humanize the process and to help folks
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understand that,
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gosh, it's really not that scary.
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And maybe I could actually contribute to
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that decision-making process.
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So that's a lot of what went into
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all of this.
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Have you guys thought about just simply
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changing the color of the ink?
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No, just kidding.
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All right, Rachel,
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why did you just kind of jump on
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this?
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I don't know if I just showed up
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with a simple answer,
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but if it was green,
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would it be as bad?
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We should do a study on that.
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But all right, Rachel,
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why are we doing that?
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No,
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I think I've been on the editorial board
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of PGJ for four or five years now.
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And what I've really noticed is how
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seriously the editorial board takes our
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role as like the official journal of the
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APTA.
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So this CSN session is kind of a
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continuation of a lot of other things that
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we have been doing.
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So PTJ hosts like quarterly peer review
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labs where we bring in the last one,
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Danny Young and myself ran one for some
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people who are really new to the peer
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review process.
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But we really see getting more people
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involved in peer review as an amazing way
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to build not only like
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your individual experience with learning
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how to take a research article and digest
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it and apply it clinically.
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But we need clinicians and we need more
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frontline folks really engaging in the
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research because that's,
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we want to be publishing work that is
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clinically applicable.
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So I think this is just yet another
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way that we want to get out in
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front of members, PTA members.
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As a guy with a communications background,
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of course,
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I'm going to look through the lens,
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but if I don't understand it,
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it's more confusing.
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That's literally how it works.
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So by baby-stepping people through it,
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and I don't think it's baby-stepping in
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terms of talking down to them,
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but if you don't understand this,
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I will then walk it back and then
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walk you through this process.
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And then suddenly...
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maybe there's a little less red ink next
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time,
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or maybe I'll do this more if the
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process isn't so,
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or I don't feel like it's so daunting.
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So pulling back the curtain is a great
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idea.
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What do you think scares people most about
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peer review and publishing?
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And now we get into emotions.
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It's like, wait a minute,
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it's still about logic,
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but we are humans on the beginning and
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end of this.
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There's gotta be emotions.
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Where do you think the fear originates
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from?
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What are the one or many places?
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I think for peer reviewers or for people
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who are new, you know,
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get asked maybe for the first time to
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review an article,
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there's a lot of imposter syndrome.
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You know,
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you don't have to have a PhD to
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be a great peer reviewer.
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So our goal is to kind of say,
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you know, we want to hear from you,
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but here's some maybe ways that can make
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your review more or less helpful.
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And then one thing we're going to actually
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do at this session is take our own
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work as editorial board members and walk
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people through
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the review process for an article that
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we've published in ptj and just really say
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like here's you know full disclosure this
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is what i submitted this is what some
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of the reviews said this is what was
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helpful and this is kind of what helped
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get it ultimately published so they can
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really see that kind of process on the
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back end all right so imposter syndrome
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would one dawn another
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Yeah, I think the other thing that,
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you know,
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one thing we're going to highlight is that
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folks don't always appreciate or not
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appreciate, that's not the right word,
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kind of see the multiple different
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benefits to this peer review.
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So again, increasingly we all ask, well,
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what's in it for me, right?
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Certainly...
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As researchers, we as authors,
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we need to put our things out there,
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have it peer reviewed.
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So we certainly need people to do that,
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be a part of that peer reviewed process.
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But I think for me, again,
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speaking from my own experience, again,
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it was daunting to be asked to do
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that first review.
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Because like you said, Rachel,
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I felt like,
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I'm not qualified.
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I don't know enough.
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I haven't written enough.
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But what's ironic about the whole process
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is that by engaging with it,
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you actually improve your own writing
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skills and become so much better.
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So I feel like my writing,
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I can share this on PD podcast, right?
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Like in high school, in college,
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writing English, that was not my thing.
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I was a math person.
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That's how my brain works.
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I was a horrible writer.
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And so, especially for me,
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there was a lot of that imposter syndrome
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coming into this space.
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But again,
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it was by reviewing other people's work
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and understanding from my perspective as a
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reader, what resonated, what worked well,
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that's how I got better.
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And so I think that's, you know,
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for me, the nice bridge of like,
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gosh, you know what?
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I've learned so much just being a reviewer
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and reading more people's work that I
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myself have gotten a lot better too.
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So yeah.
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I forget who said it.
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I'm pretty good with quotes,
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but bad at who said them, which was,
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if you want to be a better writer,
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you need to write more and you need
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to read more.
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You don't need more readers.
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You want to be a better podcaster.
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You don't need more listeners.
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You need to do it more.
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And as I'm saying that out loud,
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I'm imagining what would a peer review
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process for my podcast look like?
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I don't know if we'd ever published
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episode number one.
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It didn't make any sense until it makes
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sense.
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So for someone totally new to scholarly
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writing, and I want to be very clear,
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I have a degree in journalism.
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I was the opposite of Dawn.
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Get me away from an abacus and get
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me closer to a dictionary or some words.
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But this is a skill.
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You're born with talents and skills of the
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things you build on.
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So if you want to get good,
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you can.
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So I want you guys to talk directly
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to the person who maybe wants to try
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this and is new to scholarly writing,
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which is different than different types of
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writing, writing for broadcast,
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writing for print,
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writing for technical writing.
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So for someone totally new to scholarly
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writing,
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Where do they start?
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Well, obviously your session at CSM,
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but where would you send them if they're
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not going to be there or after that?
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Where's sort of that first step?
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Yeah, I would say for me,
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what made the biggest difference also is
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just having mentors, you know,
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folks that have that writing experience.
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So I remember one of my first meetings
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in graduate school,
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I drafted my first paper, gave it,
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and it was horrible.
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Let's just be honest.
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It was terrible.
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It was horrible.
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Looking back, it was the worst thing ever.
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I gave it to her.
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She went through and just...
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But again,
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we talked through the process of where I
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was breaking down in terms of the clarity
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of my communication.
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And so we just talked about, again,
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overall structure.
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But then even within that,
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just really it's all about clearly
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communicating what it is you're trying to
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say and ensuring that that comes through
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really clearly.
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So for me,
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it's been some of the mentors that I've
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had, especially early on.
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Like now it's more, again,
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reading resources.
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really appreciating having read other
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folks work and kind of learning from that
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but initially it was really just having
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somebody that could be that mentor and
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they weren't afraid to maybe they used a
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green or a blue or a purple link
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i don't remember but they just tore it
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apart and it wasn't out of the place
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of
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you're a horrible person.
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It was,
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I want to help you get better.
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And so it was really that early
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mentorship.
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I mean, it sounds like,
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and I know this from experience being on
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the receiving end and then eventually on
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the re on the sending end,
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which is like giving feedback is a skill.
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Like this is a different type of process
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is the goal to use as much ink
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as possible.
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Probably no.
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Is the goal to make sure you don't
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lose them.
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Right.
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And guide them along.
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Yeah.
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probably closer to that.
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Step one, Rachel,
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where would you send them?
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Dawn said people.
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You can offer people in a different way
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if you want.
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I really like, Jimmy,
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how you called it scholarly writing
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because I think what some people don't
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realize is that you don't have to be
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a researcher to publish in PTJ.
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And so we have a lot of other,
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so there's PTJ perspective pieces,
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there's points of view,
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there's other types of scholarly writing
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that PTJ publishes because it contributes
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to the profession.
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So I think that's important for CSM
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attendees to, like,
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if you have something to say that you
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think, you know,
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could be published or needs to be read
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by more members of our profession and has,
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you know,
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some scholarly kind of background to it,
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this session will also help you.
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We're going to go through some examples of
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those pieces that are, you know,
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we have
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research articles that we'll cover,
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but we have also non-research pieces that
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we're going to kind of take apart and
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walk through as authors.
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So I think I would send people to
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PTJ's website and say, hey,
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look at the breadth of things that we
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publish.
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It's not just research articles.
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There are other things that you could also
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contribute to,
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even if you're not a researcher or even
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thinking about pursuing a research career.
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it makes now that you're talking this out
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and i'm a verbal processor so if i
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were to have read something that you read
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you you wrote about this i don't think
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i would have absorbed it well which is
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probably why you also have a podcast um
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seems like you're trying to be less of
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a gatekeeper and i know that can feel
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that way if you keep submitting things and
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you're not getting in now you feel like
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it's a gatekeeper and more like a
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I don't know,
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like a strainer or a sander.
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I know it's in there,
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but we gotta remove what doesn't need to
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be there so it can be more concise.
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So less of a gatekeeper,
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more an improver is the best word I
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can come up with.
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No,
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I think coach is a good way to-
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There you go.
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That's about it.
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Because part of the peer review process is
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really thinking about impact on the
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profession.
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So it's not only someone who's gonna be
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a copy editor.
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It's someone to help you hone the ideas
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and to say,
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what will actually have that sort of
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broader impact?
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Because we don't want to, PTJ,
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I think I can speak for the whole
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team,
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we don't want to publish good research
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that has no impact,
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even if it's a robust study.
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If it's not going to make any difference
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to a clinical therapist,
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it's not really of interest to the
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journal.
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And I think the coaching aspect comes from
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is kind of comes at a lot of
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angles.
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And really what we're trying to do in
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this session is train more coaches,
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coach more coaches to make them better at
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providing that sort of feedback to other
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people.
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Because that's scalable.
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I got to pay bills.
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Thanks to Empower EMR.
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They all sound good.
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That is EmpowerEMR.com.
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So you guys are able to speak from
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both sides.
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So that's got to be great, right?
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No matter what chair you're sitting in,
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you understand what the other looks like.
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Author and editor.
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What's one thing from each position you
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wish every new author had?
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understood?
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If you could be whispering in their ear
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when they're sitting there with that
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cursor blinking at them with Microsoft
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Word, what's the thing you wish they knew?
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I think what came to mind initially when
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you asked that question, Jimmy,
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is it's not personal.
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I feel like, you know,
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it's an episode of Godfather or something
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like it's just business.
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It's not personal, right?
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Like it's,
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it doesn't mean you're a horrible person.
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Like, again, for me, we're,
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we're being so vulnerable, putting our,
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you know, work out there.
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It can be really challenging when it comes
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back with some pretty harsh,
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sometimes feedback.
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Again, it's not an assault on you.
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It's really, I think of us, Rachel,
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like on the associate editor team,
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the editorial team,
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like we're really rooting for people.
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We want,
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if it's a good idea and like,
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a good foundation, gosh,
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we want to see that succeed, right?
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And so we're going to provide that
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feedback to enable that.
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But again, for me, it was, again,
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it's just these things come from a place
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of making the work itself stronger and
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more robust.
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So that's what came to mind.
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Yeah.
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I think you need a thick skin as
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an author,
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but it's nice to have both perspectives
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because you do realize that those reviews,
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again,
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they're supposed to be constructive.
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And what we're hoping with our session is
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to help reviewers be more constructive and
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more helpful to authors.
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And the other thing I would say,
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I think,
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My like words for authors is say less.
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There is.
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And maybe reviewers, too.
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You know,
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I think one of the the journeys of
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becoming an academic writer is like you
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you start complicating your work and
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making it sound really fancy.
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And as you can probably say, Jamie,
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the scientific communication is often the
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simpler, the better.
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Yeah, brevity is the soul of wit.
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Don't use ten words when three will do.
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If you can do that,
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and that is simple, it's not easy,
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and it is also a skill.
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Let's ask a specific PTJ question.
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How do you see PTJ evolving to support
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clinicians and early career researchers?
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They are quite literally the future,
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and you've adapted.
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You've added things.
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You mentioned perspectives and podcasts.
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Those are some of the things.
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Future-facing.
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Let's see.
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I guess I'm one of the newer,
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earlier career researchers on our
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editorial team.
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And since I do a lot of the
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dissemination work,
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I think about this a lot.
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Some of the other things we're doing is
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really trying to get students involved in
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research early on.
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So we have a student lead every kind
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of couple of years who is a member
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of our editorial team.
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kind of helps me figure out what student
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preferences are.
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And so we're actually going to be doing
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interviews with our editorial board,
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with our student lead at CSM,
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talking about what their thoughts on the
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future of PT research are.
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But really, like,
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kind of breaking down that that silo i
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think for students to understand what goes
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into pt research um kind of right at
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the beginning of their education and know
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that all those articles they're reading in
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class it really takes years and a lot
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of blood sweat and tears to to create
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research and um so i think that's that's
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something that i've worked on don what do
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you think
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Yeah, I was going to build on that.
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I was hoping you were going to mention
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the student workers that we have, Rachel.
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I think the other thing too is,
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you know, it seems like within,
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we've had this for a little bit,
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but really within the last few years,
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I'm just looking at our website right now,
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but these sort of peer review labs where
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we're really encouraging for folks who
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maybe look at the process,
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the review process as being somewhat
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daunting,
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to really just bring them in beforehand
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and say, hey,
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join us for
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similar to what we're doing at CSM,
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this same kind of idea, but really just,
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you know, let's come together,
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let's review and critically appraise an
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article together just to go through the
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process.
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So again,
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it feels less kind of overwhelming and
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sort of scary.
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And so offering a lot of those sorts
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of opportunities through the website,
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through things like CSM and audience.
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And so again,
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we share those opportunities
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you know oftentimes with gosh anybody who
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wants to come we at our program direct
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them toward our phd candidates but
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certainly anyone who has an interest in
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publishing or just learning more is
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welcome to join those so
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The last thing I'll mention from kind of
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just the journal side is to support the
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average clinician is the APTA is invested
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in publishing and writing more clinical
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practice guidelines.
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So those you'll see coming out more in
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PTJ specifically.
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And that has been kind of a priority
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that we're really trying to increase how
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often and kind of the breadth of the
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different CPGs that we publish.
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Behind the Red Ink,
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Demystifying Peer Review and Empowering
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Emerging Scholars.
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Bold move, Friday, February thirteenth,
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ten thirty to noon at CSM this year.
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If this felt like you,
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how can you really miss this section?
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How can you really miss it?
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So make sure you go there.
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Let's see.
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We're going to do a little bit of
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a game.
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You guys down for a game?
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Sure.
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Why not?
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Why not?
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We'll do a quick game.
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All right,
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I want you to wear your editor hats.
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You got five seconds to answer these each.
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Dawn is already saying, great,
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we're going rapid fire.
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I'll count slow, don't worry about it.
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Just fill in the blank, okay?
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The biggest red flag in a manuscript
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submission.
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We'll go Rachel, Dawn.
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Rachel,
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biggest red flag that you can spot from
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a mile away in a manuscript submission.
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What is it?
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Oh gosh, I'm a big stats nerd.
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So pre-post design.
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Got it.
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Dawn, biggest red flag.
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Yeah.
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For me, it's the gap in the introduction,
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like not explicitly saying like,
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why is this even important?
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The significance.
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You have to take a stand.
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There's no tie.
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Oxford comma, friend or foe?
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Friend.
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Friend.
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Coffee or citation manager?
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What gets through you?
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What helps you get through a long day
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more power?
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Dawn already answers.
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Rachel already answered.
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You don't have to say words.
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They just hold up their cups.
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We got it.
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One word authors overuse in manuscripts.
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If you could say you can't use this
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word anymore,
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what's the one where you're like, oh gosh,
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what is it?
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This is a telling on myself.
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Thus is one that I use too much.
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I was going to say therefore,
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but thus is pretty close.
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Dawn,
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a word you could just say you can't
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use it.
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What is it?
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Anything?
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Nothing.
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Yeah.
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That was my first thought.
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So yeah.
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All right.
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Best way to win over a peer reviewer.
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Can they send you candy?
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No,
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but what's the best way to honestly win
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over a peer reviewer?
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I'll go first on that one, Rachel.
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You've been in the hot seat.
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It's in responding to their feedback,
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being thorough and constructive and
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responsive.
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Got it.
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Mine would be write clearly and concisely,
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but also what has Don mentioned,
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tell them why you wrote the study.
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Just say it.
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This is why this study is needed.
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Start with the end in mind.
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I love it.
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All right.
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Last one.
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This is finish this sentence.
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Peer review should feel like blank.
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What should it feel like?
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Therapy should feel like a really good
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therapy session.
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Oh, I,
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you answered that way different than I
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thought.
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That's awesome.
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Dawn,
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it should appear as you should feel like
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blank.
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My first thought was the learning process.
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Perfect.
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Yeah.
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Perfect.
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All right.
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The last thing we do on the show,
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we call it the parting shot.
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This is The Parting Shot.
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One last mic drop moment.
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No pressure.
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Just your legacy on the line.
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There's no pressure there,
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just like in the peer review process.
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It's just about dropping knowledge.
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Don,
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you can go first and lead the way
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since you've done a parting shot before.
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What's the last thing you'd want to leave
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with the audience?
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Then we'll go to Rachel.
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Yeah, I would just say, again,
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we're just on the editorial team at PTJ.
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We're just, you know,
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normal people just trying to really
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support and promote our profession to the
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best of our ability.
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So come hang out with us,
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get a little view into the peer review
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process.
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I promise it'll be a good experience.
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Mine is similar.
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You belong in PTJ.
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We have a great community and we're just
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trying to help support our clinicians with
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the best research we can and peer review
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is a huge part of that.
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It'll be these two women along with a
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decent lineup.
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You guys got a pretty heavy hitting
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lineup.
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And again, I'll say that again,
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behind the red ink,
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demystifying peer review and empowering
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emerging scholars, Friday the thirteenth,
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ten a.m.
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until noon.
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Thanks so much for doing this little
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preview episode.
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I can already see someone listening to
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this on the flight.
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That's when I figure out what I'm there's
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a conference.
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What day is this?
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What are we doing?
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Let's get that app.
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Thanks for doing this.
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I wanted to pull the curtain behind your
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session and I hope we put some glutes
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and seas for you.
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Thanks, Jimmy.