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Title: Writing for your peers: journal articles


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Writing for your peers journal articles
  • Kristina Boone,
  • Professor and Head

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Why write journal articles?
  • Administrators like it
  • Demonstrates expertise
  • Peer review maintains high standard
  • Professional development
  • Makes you think differently
  • BIG REASONS Adds to the body of scholarship
    improves practice public obligation

We are scholars. We work in higher education.
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Why difficult to write?
  • Unfamiliar format
  • Information is new and complex

Clarity and conciseness are critical
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Structure of Article
  • Title concise, provides insight
  • Abstract mini-paper
  • IMRAD
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Result
  • Discussion
  • References all cited in article

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IMRAD Recipe
  • Introduction (aka intro, review of lit,
    background)
  • Context, problem statement, related studies,
    research question/hypothesis
  • Illustrates the gap in the previous work that
    your work addresses
  • Methods (aka materials and methods)
  • What you did and how you did it
  • Results (sometimes grouped with discussion)
  • What you found

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IMRAD Recipe
  • Discussion (sometimes implications,
    recommendations, etc)
  • What all this means
  • Puts work in context of other studies
  • Explains realistic impact of findings
  • Answers the so what question
  • Recommends future research
  • Hardest section to write most common problems

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Hot Buttons for Editors and Reviewers (JOE)
  • Content
  • Contribution
  • Audience
  • Methods
  • Rigor
  • Usefulness
  • Readabilty
  • Interesting
  • Comprehension/ Understandable
  • Development/ Sequencing
  • Mechanics

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Process
  • Write it up/identify journal (call editor?)
  • Follow journal guidelines
  • Submit it
  • Wait
  • Wait
  • Get reviews back
  • Have a beer and calm down
  • Revise
  • Resubmit, complete approvals
  • Wait
  • Celebrate publication!

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