Course selection
Write your journal article! Crafting your claims for significance
Audience: PG research
Date: Wednesday 19 March 2025
Times: 12.00 to 14.00
Programme: GRADskills
Programme: Write your journal article! 12 steps to submission
Key details: This workshop will run online. 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, Write your journal article! Abstracting your article, Write your journal article! Selecting a journal, Write your journal article! Refining your works cited
Course pre-work
Suggested preparation: 鈥� Read Belcher鈥檚 workbook Week 6: Crafting Your Claims for Significance, doing all the tasks except the So What? Exercise, which you will do in the workshop.
Follow on course
Write your journal article! Analysing your evidence
Course information
PLEASE NOTE:听This workshop will run听online.听 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.
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 the 鈥楽o what?鈥� aspect of our article. We will concentrate on what is novel or relevant to the ongoing conversations in our field.听听
In the second hour, we will continue editing and writing our articles using the Pomodoro technique.听
Tutors
Dr Paula Villegas Verdu
Course provider
IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk