Turning a Thesis or Dissertation into Publishable Articles
Postgraduate students working on a thesis or dissertation are often encouraged to make good use of their research and writing by transforming the best of their work into publishable articles. This is no easy task, however, and helpful advice regarding exactly how to approach and achieve the transformation tends to be far rarer than enthusiastic encouragement. The articles listed here focus on turning parts of a thesis or dissertation into successful articles that will not only communicate your innovative methods and groundbreaking results to your scholarly community, but also give your publishing career an excellent jump-start.
Creating a publishable scholarly paper requires far more than simply pasting interesting parts of a thesis into a new document. This resource outlines practical ways in which to begin the transformation from thesis to article by ensuring that you know exactly what is expected of scholarly papers within your discipline. Also essential is deciding on a single focus for your article that will allow you to share and discuss what you consider the most important aspects of your research.
Understanding what you hope to accomplish in the article you develop from your thesis or dissertation is part of producing a successful paper, as this post emphasises. Ask yourself what the goals and argument of your article will be and then make them, not the larger concerns of your thesis, the focus of your writing. The kind of introduction, background material and overall intellectual framework you provide for your readers should also be determined by your intentions for your paper.
Keeping your readers in mind is vital as well. In a few cases, an exclusive audience of specialists similar to the scholars who make up your examination committee might be anticipated, but when submitting writing to most journals, a wider audience should be expected. This article recommends using language that is clear and concise, ensuring that all errors and potential confusions are eliminated, and remembering that acquisitions editors are among the most important of your readers.
The last resource I want to mention here discusses concerns about ancillary matter when turning a thesis into an article. Tables, figures and abstracts designed for a thesis or dissertation can sometimes be reused in an article, but significant changes might be required in tables and figures to match the narrower focus of the new text, and an effective abstract is always precisely tailored to the document it describes and the readers it is intended to inform and entice.
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