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Write your journal article! Abstracting your article
Audience: PG research
Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Times: 10.00 to 12.00
Programme: GRADskills
Programme: Write your journal article! 12 steps to submission
Key details: If you plan on taking a few workshops in the 'Write your journal article!' series, consider signing up for the programme: /pdms/programmes.php?Programme_instanceID=92&Mode=Single
Target audience
Research PGs at any stage. You should ideally come with an idea for a journal article you would like to produce.
Qualifications needed
Optional: Write your journal article! Designing your plan for writing, Write your journal article! Advancing your argument
Course pre-work
Suggested preparation: 鈥� Revise your article around your argument, using Week 2. 鈥� Read Belcher鈥檚 workbook Week 3: Abstracting Your Article (pages 90-110), doing the tasks of reading published abstracts and journal articles, drafting an abstract, and filling out the forms and checklists. You don鈥檛 need to do the social tasks, the ones that require you to talk with or work with someone else, as you will be doing those in class. 鈥� Be prepared to report on the published abstracts and journal articles you read.
Follow on course
Write your journal article! Selecting a journal
Course information
PLEASE NOTE:听This course is held ONLINE. If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place听at least two working days听before so that we can allow others onto the course.
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This seminar is an introduction to the complex world of academic publishing and is designed to give writers in a variety of disciplines practical experience in getting their work published in peer-reviewed journals. We will use the core text Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Belcher, 2019). The course explains the publication process to students and shares strategies for achieving success in the academic writing arena, including setting up a work schedule, identifying appropriate journals for submission, working with editors, writing query letters, clarifying arguments, making claims for significance, and organizing material. In a supportive environment, participants revise a draft (often a classroom paper, conference paper, or dissertation chapter) into a peer-reviewed article and submit it for publication. You can sign up for the whole programme, thematic blocks or specific sessions. Read the descriptions carefully to help you prepare for the sessions. Happy writing!听
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Aims and objectives
In the first hour, we will explore different strategies to conceptualise the abstract for our articles. We will have a go at writing them and have peer feedback.听
In the second hour, we will continue writing our articles using the Pomodoro technique.听
Tutors
Dr Paula Villegas Verdu
Course provider
IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk