Writing interpretive research papers (2014)

Description: As more students engage in PhD thesis as collection of papers, learning to construct research texts that meet high publication standards is of extreme relevance for the success of the PhD studies. Furthermore, a growing number of students at the Faculty work on studies that rely on qualitative and interpretive methodologies and analysis from the social and human sciences to investigate issues in science and technology. More often than not students learn to write using a “trial and error” method. Indeed, writing successfully research papers takes lots of efforts for professional researchers. The process of writing at the level that paper-based dissertations demand is not a “natural” skill that research students master; it is in fact one of the most demanding competence that a researcher develops as part of his/her research practice. The course is organized in six thematic blocks:


BLOCK 1. PRACTICES OF WRITING
BLOCK 2. LEARNING WRITING THROUGH READING
BLOCK 3. CONSTRUCTING TEXTS
BLOCK 4A and B. REVIEWING PAPERS AND THE PAIN OF REVISING
BLOCK 5. PREPARING A SUBMISSION IN CONTENT AND FORM
BLOCK 6. CONCLUSIONS. SO, PROFESSOR....WILL I GET PUBLISHED?

Prerequisites
Submit a max. 10 pages paper that one will work with during the course. The paper has to be submitted by registration time, sending it to paola@learning.aau.dk

Organizer: Paola Valero and Matthew Cashmore

Lecturers: Paola Valero and Matthew Cashmore

ECTS: 3

Time: 10-12 September

Place: Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 6A, Room 1.18

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 20

Deadline: 22 August, 2014