English for

Suggested answers
Evaluation procedure for submissions (review process), time
taken for reviewing, number of issues a year, number of figures 
allowed, tables or images, contact details for the editor.
Language focus
5 
Answers
footnotes, references, abstracts, key words, colour images, summary 
6 You may want to discuss some examples of reasons 
before learners start the pair work. For example, the most 
obvious reason to include/not include the elements in 
Activity 5 is the requirements of a journal. They may be 
other reasons, such as colour images not being appropriate 
in a particular field of research. We suggest that you
discuss these after learners have finished the activity.
Learners’ own answers.
7 
Answers
1 d, g 2 e 3 j 4 h 5 i 6 c, l 7 b 8 f 9 m 10 k 11 a 
8 Tell learners that Text 3 is also part of some authors’ 
guidelines. Learners can do this activity individually, and 
then compare their answers in pairs.
Answers
1 journal 2 intended to 3 research 4 readership 5 contains
6 contributions 7 editor 8 paper 9 suited

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English for Academics Book 2 Teacher’s Guide
© Cambridge University Press and British Council Russia 2015
www.cambridge.org/elt/english-for-academics
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Lesson 2
Module 2
What you want for your work is global visibility, and to have 
that you need to have a publishing partner able to provide 
worldwide marketing distribution, a trusted brand; you need a 
publisher that has very high quality in its overall list of books 
and journals, and also, 
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for those journals you are looking for, 
a high impact factor, if possible. Just to be clear, the impact 
factor is defined as the average number of citations received 
per paper published in a journal during the two preceding 
years, and this varies considerably from field to field.
So, the points to consider when publishing a journal article 
are, firstly , of course, selecting the right journal – and the 
earlier you can do that the better, because it will influence 
the style that you use when you write. Secondly , each journal 
will have a different intended readership, so it’s important to 
make sure that 
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what you are writing matches the aim and 
scope of the journals. You might also want to consider 
5
the 
editorial decision time – how long the journal takes to make 
up their mind to decide whether to publish your work or not. 
And finally , you want to choose the journal that has 
3
a good 
impact factor – the leading journal in your field.