Course selection
Write your journal article! Analysing your evidence
Audience: PG research
Date: Wednesday 26 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: 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, Write your journal article! Refining your works cited, Write your journal article! Crafting your claims for significance
Course pre-work
Suggested preparation: • Insert your new claims for significance into your article. • Read Belcher’s workbook Week 7: Analyzing Your Evidence, doing the tasks of highlighting the evidence in your article with various colors, analyzing the quality of evidence, and beginning to collect more if needed and possible. • Prepare to pitch your article.
Follow on course
Write your journal article! Presenting your evidence
Course information
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will 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 how to critically evaluate the evidence you are providing in your article. You will also have the opportunity to present your article in 3 minutes to receive 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