domains / families / research / ajs-rebuttal

ajs-rebuttal

separate

Use when responding to an American Journal of Sociology (AJS) decision — an R&R response letter to multiple double-blind reviewers and the editor, or an author Reply to a published Comment in AJS's Comment-and-Reply tradition. Structures a persuasive, evidence-based response; it does not fabricate results or contact editors.

When to use

• R&R response letter
• author Reply to a published Comment
• deciding whether and how to contest a reviewer point
• reconciling conflicting reviewers
• concede-or-contest decision aid
• executable review pass
• returning a ledger of claim, evidence, risk, and location
• sibling guard comparison

When not to use

• fabricating results
• contacting editors
• defensiveness or dismissiveness
• ignoring a reviewer or commenter point
• claiming to have made a change without actually making it
• caving to a reviewer demand that would weaken the paper
• straw-manning the Comment
• treating a Comment as an attack to be won

Skill page

Source