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Writing to Get Published in STEM Education Research
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5640-18-08-30
Enrollment deadline: 13/09/2018
Tilmelding : Writing to Get Published in STEM Education Research
PlaceInstitut for Naturfagenes Didaktik
Rådmandsgade 64, 2200 København N
Date and time27.09.2018, at: 09:00 -
28.09.2018, at: 16:00
 
Tilmelding : Writing to get published in STEM education research 2. del
PlaceInstitut for Naturfagenes Didaktik
Rådmandsgade 64, 2200 København N
Date and time01.11.2018, at: 09:00 -
02.11.2018, at: 16:00
 
Tilmelding : Writing to get published in STEM education research 3. del
PlaceInstitut for Naturfagenes Didaktik
Rådmandsgade 64, 2200 København N
Date and time06.12.2018, at: 09:00 -
07.12.2018, at: 16:00

Regular seats16
ECTS credits5.00
Contact personNadja Nordmaj    E-mail address: nnordmaj@ind.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserRobert Harry Evans    E-mail address: evans@ind.ku.dk
Teaching languageEnglish
Block notePlease contact Robert Harry Evans, evans@ind.ku.dk or Jan Alexis Nielsen, janielsen@ind.ku.dk

Aim and content

In this course, STEM education researchers begin by analysing their PhD projects from a Toulminian perspective to gain insights into their work from a substantiated ‘claim’ perspective. After using this same analysis on several articles from ‘target’ journals in which they would like to publish, they use these insights to write a publishable article from any point in their PhD project. Their goal is to take their initial article ideas to completion by the end of the course. They will be guided in scholarly writing, review and revision skills by four faculty who review extensively for international STEM journals (see special journal review qualifications attachment). The guest researchers and the teachers from SCIENCE have collaborated on the elements from this course both in a previous SCIENCE PhD course (2015) and multiple times at the European Science Education Research Association summer school. Among them, the four faculty who teach this course have extensive publishing, editorial and reviewing experience in STEM education research. The course applied for here is further development of a SCIENCE PhD course from 2015. In the previous course 16 students participated – 3 from SCIENCE, 2 from other Danish Universities, and 11 from Austria, Germany, Finland, Switzerland & the UK, respectively. We are confident that the course will attract students from leading European universities; and we expect that the course will be relevant to all PhD students in the Department


Formel requirements
At least half-way though your PhD studies. From any European country.

From 09.07.2018 participants have to contact Robert Evans evans@ind.ku.dk or Jan Alexis Nielsen janielsen@ind.ku.dk as further participants are selected on the basis on the criteria established in the call.

Learning outcome
The course introduces the participants to strategic and meta-strategic considerations when publishing in an international context. Participants are given basic tools and foci for scholarly writing. Participants will acquire knowledge of norms, academic genres and bad practice. Further, participants will learn how to respond to reviews; including simulated reviews on writings from the course lecturers. They will have a peer and professionally reviewed article ready to correct and submit by the end of the course.

Lecturers
Some lectures will be giving by:

Professor Justin Dillon, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Professor Alexander Kauertz, Deputy Head of the Graduate School, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Preparation before the course:
Participants hand in an outline of a paper that they want to write or bring to completion during the course. Participants also identify two possible journals where they want to publish their paper (along with a brief justification of why these are appropriate). Based on this, the course leaders will identify one or two papers from these journals on which the participant performs a review using a substantiated ‘claim’ analysis devised by the course leaders. These reviews are submitted during the first meeting.

First meetings In September
Participants will analyse the argumentative structure of their own paper-outline, as well as the papers they have reviewed. For this purpose, the participants will use an innovative analytical tool to reveal the argumentative structure of scholarly papers. The second half of the first meeting focuses on good quality writing in English. This involves both lectures and writing sessions. In addition, participants will partake in an analysis of different journals in STEM education research in order to acquire knowledge of the different norms and genres for and of various journals.

Preparation for the second meeting:
Participants will read about Toulminian argumentation and how it can be applied to PhD studies to align them with publication expectations. They will also read self-selected articles from their ‘target’ journals to continue to align their own work with extant publications. They will also continue to work on ‘their paper’ based on the input they received during the first meeting. During this period, smaller groups of participants will make biweekly exchanges of small text excerpts from their evolving papers (max 250 words). In this way all participants will learn to give and receive feedback on their writing. Two weeks before the second meeting, the participants will submit the current version of ‘their paper’ for interim (formative) review by course leaders and guest lecturers.

Second meetings in November
There will be an in-depth writing workshop where participants can discuss more thoroughly with peers, course leaders and guest lecturers about the specific challenges they face when writing their paper. This includes both plenum and small-group sessions. Also, during this meeting participants will study different authentic decision letters from editors and acquire strategies for responding to such letters. The large experience with reviewing submissions to international STEM journals will be used to guide participants to successful scholarly writing.

Preparation for third meeting:
The biweekly exchanges of text excerpts will continue. Two weeks before the final meeting, participants will submit a coherent draft of their paper. The course leaders will provide reviews based on international journal protocols from the journals to which the participants will submit. Second reviewers will be the other course participants. Based on the reviews, course leaders will write what corresponds to an editorial decision letter for each paper.

Final meeting in December
Submitted papers will have been reviewed by faculty and course colleagues. The peer reviews will be shared first and then the faculty comments. Students will be able to evaluate the usefulness of peer reviews. The faulty will also share actual STEM review editorial feedback with the participants and suggest how to respond to editor reviews and comments. Both sets of reviews and interpretations will guide final submissions to chosen journals.

Workload
Preparation / Self-study: 60 hours
Course hours: 42 hours
Evaluation / reporting: 26 hours

Remarks
Participation fee: Registration is free of charge; Participants are required to cover any and all costs pertaining to travel, room and board during the course.

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