Tài liệu Writing for Publication part 3 ppt

planning his PhD, aware of institutional pressures to publish (and the

career benefits of so doing), he designed his thesis so that he could

publish papers on aspects of his work as he went along. He ended up

writing papers in tandem with particular chapters of his thesis. He

struggled with the first paper – he had excellent data but found

difficulty in shaping it into an argument for an article. He got three

professors in his department and his supervisor/adviser to help him to

restructure his writing. When everyone was happy that the paper was

in good shape, he submitted it to a prestigious journal and it was

accepted with only minor revisions. He was absolutely delighted

when his paper was accepted and got promoted shortly afterwards.

He is now writing a second paper in tandem with the next chapter of

his thesis.

Claudia has become an academic as a second career. She was not well

advised about her writing and publication in the first few years of her

academic job and, as a result, had no publications to contribute when

her department’s research output was audited. Her confidence was

severely damaged by this experience and she seriously considered

giving up her academic career. Rather than do that, she worked hard

with her newly acquired mentor to develop some of her existing work

for presentation at a small, friendly conference and subsequent

publication in a refereed journal. Her success in this regard boosted

her confidence sufficiently that she decided to begin her PhD, with her

mentor as her supervisor. She is now working on a second paper.

Bina has a first-class degree in mathematics. She subsequently

became a schoolteacher and undertook an MA in the Sociology

of Education, which required her to begin to think and write

sociologically instead of mathematically. She is now becoming a

confident writer although she originally thought that she would never

be able to write sociology (rather than maths). She has a couple of

publications to her credit and is thinking about how to develop her

writing and publication profile.

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