WHAT GETS PUBLISHED AND WHY Research articles get published because they say something new about some- thing old. A publishable article is organized around a single significant new idea that is demonstrably related to what has come before. If your idea is interesting but not new, your article will not be published. If your idea is new but not related to the old(usually previous research), your article will not be published. If your ideas are new but disconnected from each other, your arti cle will not be published. As some scholars put it, "Tell me something I don't know so I can understand better what I do know" (Booth et a 1995, 18)