Writing up research | terryclayton

Writing Up Research for Publication

This series of five one-day sessions examines the style of international peer reviewed journal research articles and provides practical guidance on how to structure an article for publication. The workshop uses current research articles in the participants’ fields of study to illustrate underlying structures for ordering and sequencing ideas and characteristic grammatical structures for each section of standard journal article formats. The workshop also looks at how journal editors work, the peer review process used by international journals and the ‘politics of publication’.

Course Outline

Session 1: Introductions and Abstracts

The four-move pattern in Abstracts
Current publishing practices and how they affect authors from developing countries

Session 2: Working with “the literature”

Accessing global literature databases
Methods and techniques for planning your literature review
Quotations and plagiarism
Accessing literature online

Session 3: Methods and Materials

(Note: The outline below is for quantitative research methods)

Appropriate levels of detail
Tense shift
Schemas for organizing methods and materials
Ethical Issues in Research: Editors responsibilities and publishers concerns

Session 4: Results and Discussion

Dealing with results: The good, the bad and the ugly
Linking results to the literature
Elements and schemas for structuring results
The visual communication of information

Session 5: Presenting & Submission

Presenting your research
Getting published (Selecting the ‘right’ journal and working with journal editors; the peer review process; working with reviewers and dealing with feedback and revisions

Audience: Researchers aiming for publication in local or internationally referred English language journals.

Duration: 5 days (consecutive or spaced)

Location: At your site or residential

Course instructor: Terry Erle Clayton

Recommended group size: 5-15

Cost: USD 175.00/person