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Write your journal article! Designing your plan for writing

Target audience

Research PGs at any stages. You should ideally come with an idea for a journal article you would like to produce.

Course pre-work

Ideally attendees will have access to Belcher, Wendy Laura. 2019. Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (You need this edition, not the previous one, from 2009.) If you want to keep your workbook clean, you can print out the forms at https://wendybelcher.com/writing-advice/workbook-forms/ and use those instead of writing in the book.

Follow on course

Write your journal article! Advancing your argument

Course information

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will run online.听 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!

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Aims and objectives

In the first hour, we will look at common obstacles to academic writing and how to overcome them. We will also come up with a writing plan that suits our busy schedules.听

In the second hour, we will start writing our articles using the Pomodoro technique. We suggest that you bring the work (a classroom paper, conference paper, or dissertation chapter) that you are using to inform your article.听

Tutors

Dr Paula Villegas Verdu

Course provider

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