Myth 2: Only those articles with lots of interesting ideas will get published. Most students think that interesting ideas make an article publishable. Although it is to be hoped that any article has interesting ideas, their sheer accumulation is not what makes an article publishable. This perception about ideas probably comes from classroom grading, where so many checks in the margin equal a B and so many more equal an A. In the class room, you can win praise for the simple generation of ideas, the more the better, no matter how disconnected. But journal articles are a different story. In fact, a focus on simply spraying ideas can be detrimental to publication. Articles get published not for the number of ideas presented but for being carefully organized around a single significant idea.