Pre-Conference Workshop

WRITING FOR ACADEMIC PUBLICATION

The first part of the session will be an information session that orients participants to the general field of academic publication including the political contexts surrounding academic work. Advice around the demands and expectations of publishers, editors and reviewers will be provided to allow participants to appreciate the 'hidden curriculum' of publication and how better to prepare papers for submission to journals.

The second part of the session will be a practical workshop, providing the opportunity for participants to consider the writing-for-publication advice in relation to their own work. To gain maximum benefit from this workshop participants should bring a piece of writing (such as a conference paper or draft journal article), or an idea for an article they are thinking of writing. If possible, participants should bring along a laptop. Depending on the needs of groups of participants, a planning and/or critiquing process will be scaffolded by the workshop leaders.

Workshop Leaders

Professor Robyn Jorgensen
Griffith Institute for Educational Research
Griffith University

Assoc. Professor Judy Anderson
Faculty of Education & Social Work
The University of Sydney

Assoc. Professor Janette Bobis
Faculty of Education & Social Work
The University of Sydney

Dr Jennifer Way
Faculty of Education & Social Work
The University of Sydney

The fees for this 3-hour workshop is SGD 60 per participant and will have to paid on the morning of 2 July 2012 before the start of the workshop. Participants for this workshop will have to indicate their intent to participate by sending an email to the conference secretariat at merga@nie.edu.sg . Acceptance of participation is on a first-come, first-served basis. The number of participants will be limited to about 20.