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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Remember: 1) Have An Attainable Goal 2) Be Determined and Focused 3) FINISH!
Find two or three international journals in spanish language to publish my articles.
Gladys, here are some thoughts:
Información, Cultura y Sociedad
Convergencia
El Profesional de la Información
Tecne, Episteme y Didaxis
Thank you Renetta
You’re welcome!
My goal is actualize the literature about IMPDH2 relevant to AZT drug.
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
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
My first attainable goal: To get at least two paragraphs for the instroduction part of the paper.
We are going to define the research theme this afternoon. We are planning to work with generation gap and boomer brain drain.
There may also be a place for some of your work in gerontology publications: http://www.geron.org/Publications
I will like to write a draft of my introduction.
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.
Today I plan on making the first draft of my paper related to the challenges for education on the 21 century.
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.
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.
My goal is to write an outline of the article.
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I hope during this days to have a draft of my paper !!!! Janette Orengo
During today I will evaluate differents journals that will be consider to send my paper,to write with the specific especifications. J.Orengo
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
This afternoon I hope to write the first draft of the introduction.
Yanilda
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.
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.
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.
Yolanda, are you using this page for your guidelines?
http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/_layouts/1033/oaks.journals/informationforauthors.aspx
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.
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!
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…”
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.
My goal for today is to define key concepts.
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.
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
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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