How to Write and Publish Effectively: Writing Support Group Guidelines

This report describes a writing support and accountability program voluntarily

organized by and for a grassroots community in South Asia. Organized early 2020 --

which happened to be in the middle of the first wave of the Covid-19 global pandemic --

this program recruited 24 scholars from a pool of 216 applicants from across South Asia

(Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, and Pakistan). A sign up survey asked interested

scholars, who were invited through networking/ snowballing on social media, to

describe a research project from which they would like to write an academic journal

manuscript, learning and implementing writing skills along the way. While they were

encouraged to share an empirical research project with a social impact in mind,

theoretical projects were also included. We have described the broader social context

and challenges influencing the vision and mission