Preparing Publishable Manuscripts

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Description: Preparing Publishable Thesis Chapters is intended for graduate students with original data collected, analyzed, and ready to report in refereed journals. Consideration of best practices for preparing manuscripts for submission or publication will be augmented with guidance that students will receive from their mentors. Themes of the class include commonalities and differences in research writing conventions among academic disciplines, gatekeepers’ expectations about research submitted for publication, practical strategies for increasing the likelihood of favorable reviews from journal editors, and the contemporary roles of theses and dissertations. Students will be provided with a framework for research writing and publishing that they can further employ to advance within their fields of scholarship.