Write your journal article! Strengthening your structure

Audience: PG research

Date: Wednesday 23 April 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, Write your journal article! Analysing your evidence, Write your journal article! Presenting your evidence

Course pre-work

Suggested preparation: • Revise article based on class discussion about your presentation of evidence. • Read Belcher’s workbook Week 9: Strengthening Your Structure, doing the tasks of outlining a published journal article, making a post-draft outline of your article, and starting to restructure your article as needed

Follow on course

Write your journal article! Opening and concluding your article

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 strategies to strengthen the structure of your article. To make the most of this session, we suggest that you bring an outline of your article to engage in a peer review activity. 

In the second hour, we will continue editing and writing our articles using the Pomodoro technique. We suggest you look at the article’s structure carefully. 

Tutors

Dr Paula Villegas Verdu

Course provider

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