Write your journal article! Refining your works cited

Audience: PG research

Date: Wednesday 12 March 2025

Times: 12.00 to 14.00

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: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/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

Course pre-work

Suggested preparation: • Read Belcher’s workbook Week 5: Refining Your Works Cited, doing the tasks of evaluating your citations, identifying any needed other works, identifying your entry point, and revising your related secondary literature review. • Bring your revised related secondary literature review

Follow on course

Write your journal article! Crafting your claims for significance

Course information

PLEASE NOTE:  This course wil run online. 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.

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 look at your literature review section. We suggest that you bring what you have written so far to engage in peer-feedback 

In the second hour, we will continue editing and writing our articles using the Pomodoro technique. 

Tutors

Dr Paula Villegas Verdu

Course provider

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