“Writing for Publication” goes on the road – Puerto Rico Sessions: May 17-19 w/ UMBC’s Dr. Kevin Omland

May 17, 2013

“Writing for Publication” goes on the road – Puerto Rico Sessions: May 17-19 w/ UMBC’s Dr. Kevin Omland

We have taken best practices from our NSF PROMISE AGEP Dissertation House and the NSF ADVANCE Hispanic Women in STEM Project to develop the “Writing for Publication” workshop. This week, we welcome 22 members of the faculty from Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) to our workshop in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dr. Kevin Omland of UMBC will be the key presenter.

Anyone who is working on an article for publication, may join us on this blog over the next few days. Feel free to add a comment and tell us what you’re writing.

General Agenda: Condado Room, Conrad Condado Plaza, San Juan

Day 1, Friday, May 17, 2013

7:30 Breakfast

8:30 Opening comments by Chancellor Carlos Padín and Dr. Evelyn García

9:00 – 10:00 Opening presentation: “Time Management & Goal Setting” – Dr. Tull

10:00 – 10:30 Welcome and Introductions

10:30 – 12:00 Mini Lecture and Discussion #1 by Dr. Omland

“Have A Plan”

12 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Mini Lecture and Discussion #2 by Dr. Omland

“Make Your Writing Simple and Clear (Active Voice)”

2:00 – 5:30 Work on Publication

6:00 Dinner

After dinner: Continue working on publication

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Day 2, Saturday, May 18, 2013

7:30 Breakfast

8:30 Report-out, and goal-setting – Dr. Tull

9:30 – 10:30 Mini Lecture and Discussion #3 by Dr. Omland

“Avoid the False Demon of ‘Perfection’ “

10:30 – 12:00 Work on Publication

12 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:30 Remarks and Remaining Tips by Dr. Omland

“Details of Final Submission (and Resubmission)”

1:30 – 5:30 Work on Publication

6:00 Dinner

After Dinner: Continue working on publications

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Day 3, Sunday, May 19, 2013

7:30 Breakfast

8:30 Report-out, and goal-setting

9:30 – 10:30 Final Comments by Dr. Tull

10:30 – 12:00 Work on Publication and Conclusion

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Facilitators:

Dr. Renetta G. Tull, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development and Postdoctoral Affairs, PROMISE Director

Dr. Kevin Omland, Professor of Biology, UMBC omland@umbc.edu

Nandadevi Cortes Rodriguez, Graduate Assistant, UMBC mcortes1@umbc.edu

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Writing for Publication

Puerto Rico, Renetta Tull, San Juan Puerto Rico, UMBC, Universidad Metropolitana, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Renetta Garrison Tull

Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull is the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the University of California Davis. She previously served as Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at The Graduate School at UMBC, and was Professor of the Practice in the College of Engineering & IT. She was Special Assistant to the Sr. Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Director of Graduate and Professional Pipeline Development for the University System of Maryland (12 institutions). She is the Founding Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) – http://www.umbc.edu/promise, and Co-PI for the USM LSAMP. Her research on global diversity in STEM continues, and she is an international speaker, covering nearly all continents, for groups and conferences such as the World Engineering Education Forum, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies, and the Pacific Sciences Congress. Her personal website is: http://renettatull.wordpress.com. Connect with her on Twitter: @Renetta_Tull; https://twitter.com/Renetta_Tull

43 responses to ““Writing for Publication” goes on the road – Puerto Rico Sessions: May 17-19 w/ UMBC’s Dr. Kevin Omland”

Kevin Omland

May 17, 2013 at 1:22 pm

Remember: 1) Have An Attainable Goal 2) Be Determined and Focused 3) FINISH!

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1. Gladys Cora
  
  May 17, 2013 at 1:29 pm
  
  Find two or three international journals in spanish language to publish my articles.
  
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  1. Renetta Garrison Tull
    
    May 17, 2013 at 2:06 pm
    
    Gladys, here are some thoughts:
    
    Información, Cultura y Sociedad
    Convergencia
    El Profesional de la Información
    Tecne, Episteme y Didaxis
    
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    1. Gladys Cora
      
      May 17, 2013 at 2:18 pm
      
      Thank you Renetta
      
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      1. Renetta Garrison Tull
        
        May 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm
        
        You’re welcome!
        
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2. Diana Gomez
  
  May 17, 2013 at 1:29 pm
  
  My goal is actualize the literature about IMPDH2 relevant to AZT drug.
  
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Juan

May 17, 2013 at 1:26 pm

We are planning to write about generations; how the baby boomers can avoid a generation gap with the generation Y. How they can prepare themselves and/orr their organization to improve their organizational results

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1. Renetta Garrison Tull
  
  May 17, 2013 at 2:10 pm
  
  Please take a look at these guidelines for the “Harvard Business Review.” Sometimes, it is easier to write for a particular publication, this or other, by looking at the “Guidelines for Authors” and answering the questions that the editors have already constructed.
  
  http://hbr.org/guidelines-for-authors-hbr
  
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Mitk’El B. Santiago-Berríos

May 17, 2013 at 1:26 pm

My first attainable goal: To get at least two paragraphs for the instroduction part of the paper.

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Eliel B. Irizarry

May 17, 2013 at 1:28 pm

We are going to define the research theme this afternoon. We are planning to work with generation gap and boomer brain drain.

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1. Renetta Garrison Tull
  
  May 17, 2013 at 2:12 pm
  
  There may also be a place for some of your work in gerontology publications: http://www.geron.org/Publications
  
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Luis Vazquez

May 17, 2013 at 1:28 pm

I will like to write a draft of my introduction.

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1. Luis Vazquez
  
  May 18, 2013 at 8:44 am
  
  Yesterday, I wrote a draft of the abstract, introduction and the methods section in underway. Also I created a protein database for the Transferrin family using the NCBI-BLAST algorithm (in order to develop the methods section). Today I am going to perform the search with the SSEARCH algorithm and continue to develop the methodology section.
  
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Víctor A. Meléndez

May 17, 2013 at 1:28 pm

Today I plan on making the first draft of my paper related to the challenges for education on the 21 century.

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1. Renetta Garrison Tull
  
  May 17, 2013 at 2:22 pm
  
  Have you seen this source? http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLAC/Resources/Raising_Student_Learning_in_LAC_Document.pdf
  
  Be sure to consider the sources that *you* read for your literature review. You can consider publishing in those journals or even periodicals where you are getting information for your own research.
  
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  1. Víctor A. Meléndez
    
    May 18, 2013 at 8:58 am
    
    Thank you very much for your suggestion. It it’s a very pertinent document to work with… Still yesterday I was supposed to elaborate the first draft of my paper regarding the educational challenges for the 21st century. After doing some research I decided to change the main focus of my article and turn it into something even more useful for our university. I’ve decided to make an outline of a plan for the General Education Program’s renewal.
    
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H

May 17, 2013 at 1:29 pm

My goal is to write an outline of the article.

H

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Janette Orengo

May 17, 2013 at 1:30 pm

I hope during this days to have a draft of my paper !!!! Janette Orengo

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1. Janette Orengo
  
  May 18, 2013 at 9:07 am
  
  During today I will evaluate differents journals that will be consider to send my paper,to write with the specific especifications. J.Orengo
  
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eloisa

May 17, 2013 at 1:30 pm

to build upon a series of short articles I have written on the concept of the “global city” and the crisis of democratization, in terms of literature review and sketching of ideas

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Yanilda Rodríguez

May 17, 2013 at 1:30 pm

This afternoon I hope to write the first draft of the introduction.

Yanilda

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1. Renetta Garrison Tull
  
  May 17, 2013 at 4:15 pm
  
  We talked about topics in our meeting, but I didn’t ask to see your plans for your introduction. Let’s talk about that tomorrow.
  
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Iris

May 17, 2013 at 1:31 pm

After finding the journal where to submit for possible publication, look for the specific in the publication and try to get started with the introduction.

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Yolanda

May 17, 2013 at 1:31 pm

My goals for this afternoon are: 1) to revise the publication guidelines for a concept analysis on the American Journal of Nursing and 2) start on the article revision and editing for publication of “Humanity: A Concept Analysis for Nursing.

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1. Renetta Garrison Tull
  
  May 17, 2013 at 3:48 pm
  
  Yolanda, are you using this page for your guidelines?
  http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/_layouts/1033/oaks.journals/informationforauthors.aspx
  
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profesornievesmoreno

May 17, 2013 at 1:33 pm

My goal for today is to organize the data I already have, look for other information resources and write down a clear and specific outline for the paper.

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1. Renetta Garrison Tull
  
  May 17, 2013 at 4:14 pm
  
  Based on our talk, remember to stick with the goals from your proposal, and the data points that you’re going to use. Your ideas are captivating, so think about the problem at the 20,000 foot level (looking at the broad picture), and then break it down into the focused area. Think of it like an upside down triangle. You’re doing your comparison between the models, then focusing on the single aspect of your hypothesized problem. I’ll be interested in learning about the results once you’re finished!
  
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Kevin Omland

May 17, 2013 at 4:56 pm

GRAMMAR HUMOR – APS STYLE MANUAL
“Voice – In scientific writing, **the use of active voice is preferred** [sic]; however, APS style does not rigidly enforce this rule. Use your judgment and leave the author’s voice if it is clear and consistent.
bad: Data were collected by our laboratory…
good: We collected the data…”

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Mitk’El B. Santiago-Berríos

May 18, 2013 at 8:43 am

My goal yesterday was to at least have two paragraphs for the instruduction. Yesterday was a very succesful day. I manage to write what I believe is the first draft of the paper!!!! Today I will recheck literature, and see if I have to add something to the introduction part. If I have time…read again the draft. And edit it if possible.

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H

May 18, 2013 at 8:50 am

My goal for today is to define key concepts.

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Iris

May 18, 2013 at 9:03 am

I accomplished my goal!!! Yes… I found a journal where I can submit the paper. Also, I started to narrow down the idea since I will be doing a paper on my dissertation and I got to refine the topic of the paper. For today I want to read again the methods and results chapters in order to write an outline and start to write the paper base on the style required by the journal.

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Oliva

May 18, 2013 at 9:06 am

Yesterday I did the following:
1)Read the authors guidelines of the journal
2)Organized endnote references
3)Made the outline of the paper
4)Organized the Figures and write the experimental part

Today, I will finish the figures and tables, add references with endnote and start working in the introduction

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Kevin Omland

May 19, 2013 at 11:43 am

It was great to interact with you all. Keep up the great work with your projects. Keep pushing until you hit SUBMIT!

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