Feb. 8, 2026

How Peer Review Actually Works (And Why You Should Care)

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)

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????️ 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:


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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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If your clinic is stuck on an EMR,

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but slows you down, that's a you choice.

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Empower gives you speed,

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clean workflows and features.

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PTs actually ask for better notes,

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faster documentation and smoother

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operations.

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They all sound good.

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All wrapped up in customer support that

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doesn't ghost you.

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EmpowerEMR.com.

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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.