Alaric Hall Academic coursework is modelled on professional academic writing, and is designed to help students learn how to write professional academic articles.1 But it can also be of professional standard in itself, or be developed after submission, and may prove your point of entry into academic publishing. My approach to this process here begins by addressing some practical questions about publishing coursework – about whether and where you should try to publish. I then proceed to look at the writing itself – at how writer-centred coursework differs from reader-centred articles and how professional-level writing is formatted, with a couple of hints about content. Just for brevity, I use a lot of imperatives, but I do not claim to be authoritative! Unless you turn out to be the next Jaques Derrida (in which case, I will be expecting the cheque in the post), no-one will ever know your work better than you; and you know your own aspirations and ambitions. Publishing is fundamentally about personal motivation, and you have, therefore, to make personal choices. Reading my aforementioned scribulations, you would find a lot of cases of ‘do as I say, not as I did’, but I seem to have managed. Who are you? Chapter 3 Writing the Introduction and Conclusion of a Scholarly Article John Corbett What are scholarly articles for? Scholarly articles are the common currency of the academic community. University researchers, whether scientists or lecturers in the arts and humanities, are judged more on their publications, and in particular on their record of publication in refereed journals, than on any other scholarly activity. This is because the core business of the practising researcher is to manufacture and disseminate knowledge, and the scholarly article is the main vehicle for claiming original knowledge about the world. Scholars in every discipline make knowledge claims by writing articles that are refereed by their peers and published in specialist journals – and although the conventional form and content of these articles vary from discipline to discipline, some general advice Chapter 4 From Submission to Print: Submitting a Paper for Publication and the Publishing Process Clare Morton This paper provides an overview of considerations when submitting an article to a journal and explains some of the publishing process after acceptance. It is not representative of all journal publishers but draws on procedures that we use at Oxford Journals (a division of Oxford University Press). It is always best to check with the Chapter 5 A Personal View of Research Assessment Exercise 2008 Graham Caie
(New) Technology Susan A. J. Stuart Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness? The simple answer runs: because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. Albert Einstein, California Institute of Technology, 1931 tract ein's remark is as applicable now as it was seventy-seven years ago, but number of very different ways. My concern in this short paper is not just our inability to make sensible use of technology, but also with the mption that Einstein makes in his question, that technology saves us and makes our lives easier. With a few exceptions I will restrict the ct of this essay to teaching and teaching-relevant technologies, and I refer to my own case-studies for examples of thought-out and ill- ght-out uses of technology. eSharp Academia: The An Academic Career? Jeremy J. Smith The Three Tasks of an Academic Postgraduate students spend most of their time undertak engaging with primary and secondary materials, and enhancing skills through appropriate training. This is as it should be: pos Academia: The View from Within Scholarship and Research: Is There A Difference? Graham D. Caie
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