Notes. These short articles document a small finding. Notes are usu- ally around 500 words, and are, typically, a case history, a methodological innovation, one observation about a particular text, and so on. Notes are good for offloading interesting but brief passages that you cannot fit into any of your research articles without digressing. If the observation is more directly related to your research, consider developing it into a research article. Articles published in note sections will not"count" for as much in a job or tenure review, although they frequently count for more than a book review or trade article. Many disciplines do not have note journals Interviews. These are a brief introduction to and transcript of an inter view with another scholar, political figure, or artist. Interviews can be a good way to get a publication under your belt and develop a relationship with someone you admire, but they require some care and planning. First you must design pointed questions focused around a topic of interest to other scholars and the audience of a particular journal. Interviews in which figures simply report on the events of their life or their general intellectual development don't tend to get published. Like an article, interviews need to be focused. Second, you must tape the interview and then transcribe it a painful process if you are not an extremely fast typist. In general, tran scribing takes about three hours for every hour of tape. Third, your interviewee must provide provocative answers to your questions, feat which is not within your control. Frequently, the aim of a journal in publishing an interview is to make a scholar's ideas more accessible and vivid.