International workshop writing @ipdn

INTERNATIONAL
WORKSHOP: ACADEMIC
WRITING & PUBLISHING
FOR IPDN LECTURE
Jatinangor, 14-16 January 2015

STEP1:
Designing Your Plan for Writing
 Instruction: Understanding feelings about writing. Keys to
positive writing experiences. Designing a plan for submitting
your article in twelve weeks.
 Exercises: Selecting a paper for revision. Choosing your
writing site. Designing your writing schedule. Anticipating and
overturning writing obstacles.

STEP 2:
Starting Your Article
 Instruction: Types of academic articles. Myths about
publishable journal articles. What gets published and why.
Abstracts as a tool for success.
 Getting started on your article revision.
 Exercises: Hammering out your topic. Rereading your paper.
Drafting your abstract. Reading a model article. Revising
your abstract.

STEP 3:
Advancing Your Argument
 Instruction: Common reasons why journals reject articles.
Main reason journal articles are rejected: no argument.
Making a good argument.
 Organizing your article around your argument.
 Exercises: Drafting your argument. Reviewing your article for
an argument.
 Revising your article around your argument.

STEP 4:
Selecting a Journal
 Instruction: Good news about journals. The importance of
picking the right journal. Types of academic journals: non
recommended, questionable, and preferred. Finding suitable
academic journals.
 Exercises: Searching for journals. Evaluating academic
journals. Matching your article to suitable journals. Reading
relevant journals. Writing a query letter to editors. Making a
final decision about which journal.

STEP 5:
Reviewing the Related Literature
 Instruction: Reading the scholarly literature. Types of
scholarly literature.
 Strategies for getting reading done. Identifying your
relationship to the related literature. Avoiding plagiarism.
Writing about others' research.
 Exercises: Evaluating your current citations. Identifying and
reading the related literature. Evaluating the related literature.
Writing or revising your related literature review.

STEP 6:
Strengthening Your Structure
 Instruction: On the importance of structure. Types of
structures. Article
 structures in the social sciences and humanities. Solving
structural
 problems. Revising for structure.
 Exercises: Outlining a model article. Outlining your article.
Restructuring
 your article.

STEP 7:
Presenting Your Evidence
 Instruction: Types of evidence. Writing up evidence in the
social sciences.
 Writing up evidence in the humanities. Revising your
evidence.
 Exercises: Discussing evidence in your field. Revisiting your
evidence.
 Shaping your evidence around your argument.

STEP 8:
Opening and Concluding Your Article
 Instruction: On the importance of openings. Revising your
opening and conclusion.
 Exercises: Revising your title. Revising your introduction.
Revisiting your abstract, related literature review, and author
order. Revising your conclusion.

STEP 9:
Giving, Getting, and Using Others'
Feedback
 Instruction: Types of feedback. Exchanging your articles.
 Exercises: Sharing your article and getting feedback. Making
a list of remaining tasks. Revising your article according to
feedback.

STEP10:
Editing Your Sentences
 Instruction: On taking the time. Types of revising. The rules of
editing. The
 Belcher diagnostic test. Editing your article.
 Exercises: Running the Belcher diagnostic test. Revising
your article with
 the diagnostic test. Correcting other types of problem
sentences.

STEP 11:
Wrapping Up Your Article
 Instruction: On the perils of perfection. Finalizing your article.
 Exercises: Finalizing your argument, related literature review,
introduction,
 evidence, structure, and conclusion.

STEP 12:
Sending Your Article!
 Instruction: On the importance of finishing. Getting the
submission ready.
 Exercises: Writing the cover letter. Preparing illustrations.
Putting your article into the journal's style. Preparing the final
print or electronic version.
 Send and celebrate!

STEP X:
Responding to Journal Decisions
 Instruction: An exhortation. Waiting for the journal's decision.
Reading the journal's decision. Types of journal decisions.
Responding to journal decisions.
 Exercises: Evaluating and responding to the journal decision.
Planning your revision. Revising your article. Drafting your
revision cover letter.
 Requesting permissions. On the importance of persevering.

references
 Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to
Academic Publishing Success SAGE Publishing 2013
 http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/langan/cws/

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