How do professional scholars draft their research papers? What are the best writing techniques and formats they employ to turn their drafts into publishable articles? What are the main criteria according to which they select the journals and/or edited volumes to which they submit such articles for publication? How do they support each other’s efforts by conducting productive peer reviews? This course is designed for PhD researchers in the Humanities who have intentions to improve their writing skills and working plans for the purpose of publishing research papers in top-tier academic journals and/or edited volumes.
The course will not be covering issues of academic writing and publishing from a theoretical standpoint. It will instead be delivered in an experiential and collaborative fashion. To enroll in the course each participant will be required to share the draft of an original research paper that they are planning to submit to academic journals and/or edited volumes for publication well before the start.
In the first class the general aspects of academic writing and publishing will be covered, while concretely analyzing the inner argumentative structures, formal aspects, and overall features of successful sample articles. Starting from the second class, the participants will interactively peer-review each of the shared drafts together with Salvatore, to collectively assess how such drafts can be concretely improved and turned into publishable texts. Based on these experiential exercises of guided peer review, the participants will be finally asked to re-work their drafts into final versions to be submitted to academic publishers by the end of the course.
Thursdays 15:00 - 17:00
9 November, 23 November, 7 December, 21 December
Please contact us if you cannot attend the course in person.
The course addresses multiple learning outcomes. By the end of the course, the participants should be able to:
Dr Salvatore Giusto holds a PhD in economic and political anthropology and is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities. He is a cultural anthropologist working on the digital culture of Neapolitan criminality, sitting now between European Studies and Media Studies.
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