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Guides scholars in the methodology of Critical Inquiry (CI), where evidence is not data but objects (texts, images, artworks, cases) read closely through theory. This skill teaches how to select objects that rigorously test an argument, perform deep close reading, incorporate counter-evidence, and prepare visual materials to professional journal standards.

This guide details the rigorous review process for academic submissions, outlining the high standards and expectations of leading journals. It helps authors pre-empt potential rejection by understanding the criteria—such as achieving 'critical intervention,' maintaining interdisciplinary legibility, and avoiding simultaneous submission—required to shape a manuscript for successful publication.

This guide details the rigorous process of revising academic manuscripts for top-tier scholarly journals. It provides a structured strategy for authors to respond to editor and reviewer feedback, emphasizing strengthening the central intervention, addressing every comment point-by-point, and reconciling conflicting scholarly opinions while maintaining academic rigor.

This guide teaches writers how to move beyond a literature review to effectively position their argument within an ongoing academic 'conversation.' It outlines the structural map required: identifying the core intellectual debate, pinpointing the existing assumptions (standing view), defining the gap or contradiction (pressure point), and clearly stating the essay's unique contribution (move) and potential implications (payoff). Ideal for advanced academic writing, critical theory, and interdisciplinary research.

This comprehensive guide serves as the final pre-submission checklist for publishing in Critical Inquiry (CI). It details crucial, often overlooked requirements—such as adhering to strict word counts (including notes and bibliography), using Microsoft Word format, following Chicago 17th footnotes (no works-cited list), providing separate, high-resolution images, and confirming single-submission status. Using this checklist minimizes common publication errors before hitting 'submit' on Editorial Manager.

This guide assists academic writers in selecting, deploying, and making theoretical frameworks an active instrument within essays. It teaches how to move beyond mere jargon-dumping, ensuring that concepts (such as psychoanalysis, deconstruction, or ecocriticism) genuinely contribute to a claim about the object under study. It clarifies the crucial distinction between theorizing, applying theory, and merely citing it.

This guide helps academics determine if their manuscript aligns with the scope of China Industrial Economics, or if it should be redirected to more specialized journals (e.g., Economic Research, Management World). It provides criteria based on empirical rigor, policy quasi-experiments, and specific research focus (industry, enterprise, environment).

This guide outlines rigorous standards for conducting heterogeneity analysis in economic research. It stresses that heterogeneity should not merely involve slicing data by region or size, but must be theoretically driven, linking multiple dimensions (e.g., ownership, financing constraints, industry type) to core economic mechanisms. The analysis must demonstrate significant group differences and clearly connect findings to differential policy implications, elevating the discussion from mere observation to actionable policy science.

This guide provides rigorous methodology for authors to structure the policy and institutional background section of empirical economic manuscripts. Highlighting the journal's reliance on verifiable details (exact file names, dates, implementation rules), it teaches how to connect policy context directly to quasi-experimental identification strategies (like DID and event-study), ensuring the validity of causal claims and preventing common desk-reject issues.

This guide provides rigorous standards for crafting academic literature reviews, particularly for specialized journals in economics. It instructs authors to move beyond simple citation listing and instead structure the review around identified research gaps. The required structure emphasizes a clear progression from 'Current Status' to 'Deficiencies' and finally to 'Novel Positioning,' ensuring the paper's marginal contribution is clearly derived from a knowledge gap.

This guide provides rigorous methodological standards for conducting mechanism analysis (mediation and moderation) in academic economics research. It strongly cautions against the traditional three-step mediation approach due to identification issues, recommending preferred alternatives like split-channel regression and causal moderation analysis to enhance the robustness of causal claims.

This guide provides rigorous criteria for formulating policy implications in academic manuscripts, particularly in industrial economics. It enforces the transition from vague, conceptual suggestions to highly actionable recommendations. Key elements require identifying the specific *agent* (who), the *implementation node* (where), the *concrete action* (what), and the *direct evidence* derived from the paper's findings or heterogeneity. It helps authors structure arguments to ensure theory genuinely guides practice.