Write your journal article! Sending your article!

Audience: PG research

Date: Wednesday 18 June 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, Write your journal article! Strengthening your structure, Write your journal article! Opening and concluding your article, Write your journal article! Editing your sentences

Course pre-work

Suggested preparation: • Revise article according to feedback. • Read Belcher’s workbook Week 12: Sending Your Article!, doing the tasks of putting your article in the journal’s style and filling out the checklists.

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 this session, we will explore how to address feedback for ‘revise and resubmit’. We will also explore how to handle delays and useful strategies to write the resubmission cover letter.  

Tutors

Dr Paula Villegas Verdu

Course provider

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