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Write your journal article! Opening and concluding your article

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, Write your journal article! Crafting your claims for significance, Write your journal article! Analysing your evidence, Write your journal article! Presenting your evidence, Write your journal article! Strengthening your structure

Course pre-work

Suggested preparation: • Revise article based on class discussion about your outline and structure • Read Belcher’s workbook Week 10: Opening and Concluding Your Article, doing the tasks of revising your title, introduction, abstract, and conclusion. • Bring your current title to class for group work

Follow on course

Write your journal article! Editing your sentences

Course information

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will run In-person.  If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place at least two working days 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!

Aims and objectives

 In the first hour, we will have the opportunity to revise our titles together. We will also explore strategies to write an effective introduction and conclusion for our article. 

In the second hour, we will continue writing our articles using the Pomodoro technique. We suggest you work on your introduction/ conclusion. 

Please note this session will be ONLINE 

Tutors

Dr Paula Villegas Verdu

Venue

Kinnessburn Room H

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Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk