Journal Article Publishing workshop

A workshop for advanced DPhils and postdocs. This is a workshop for those with no prior experience of publishing.

The pressure for early career academics to publish has never been stronger, but the process of getting onto the publishing ladder can seem a very daunting prospect. This hands-on publishing workshop is aimed at DPhils and early career postdocs who are keen to make a start on a journal article, a collected essay, or book review. The workshop will require a small amount of preparatory reading and planning.

Please find attached the article (https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/xhumdiv/humanities_t/page/resources Humanities Training Resources / Training workshop resources / Journal Publishing / PaulGeoni) for the workshop preparation.

Preparation for the workshop:

1) Identify a chapter/section of a chapter/ conference paper (7-8,000 words) that you would like to submit as a journal article.

2) Write and bring along an abstract (c. 300 words) for this article.

3) Have some ideas about a journal in which you would like to publish your article.

4) Read the attached recent journal article. What did you like/dislike about it? How is it similar/does it differ from articles in your discipline? Be prepared to discuss your views in terms of the structure, content, tone, and language of the article.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• have a better understanding of the editorial processes involved in academic publishing • be able to identify the key features of published academic writing in specific media • have practised defining and pitching an idea for a journal article • be able to identify their next step towards publication

About the Trainer

Dr Clare Broome Saunders is a member of Wolfson College, and teaches at the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include nineteenth-century women's poetry, nineteenth-century uses of history, and nineteenth-century women travel writers in Europe, in which fields she has published widely. Before returning to academia nine years ago, she worked for Oxford University Press, in both the Education and Academic Divisions.