Writing for Publication: Part 1

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Part 1 of an 8-part Writing for Publication workshop presented by Dr. Brian Waters

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[00:00:03.512]Today we are going to talk about Writing for Publication.
[00:00:08.113]I'll give you an overview of what
[00:00:09.933]we're going to talk about today.
[00:00:13.270]This is a slide we will see a few times.
[00:00:16.649]This is basically showing the writing process
[00:00:20.490]until you publish your manuscript.
[00:00:25.113]And so today we'll focus on some
[00:00:27.612]of the early parts, the prewriting and the drafting
[00:00:31.391]and we'll talk about the submission process
[00:00:33.852]and revisions and the publication process.
[00:00:37.451]The last workshop that Richard covered
[00:00:41.082]was about the revising and editing parts.
[00:00:43.410]So we won't spend a lot of time there today.
[00:00:46.179]We're going to start out with this topic.
[00:00:48.751]Talk about what makes a paper publishable.
[00:00:51.850]So if you have a really good result
[00:00:54.230]or even a good set of results,
[00:00:56.761]that's not necessarily a publishable paper.
[00:01:02.169]Even if you have a novel result,
[00:01:03.849]something that no one has ever published before
[00:01:06.650]that is not necessarily enough
[00:01:08.587]to make it a publishable paper.
[00:01:12.398]So what you need to think about
[00:01:14.269]is that a publishable paper needs
[00:01:17.079]to contribute to the human knowledge base
[00:01:19.961]in a meaningful way.
[00:01:22.370]Okay so you have to have your work
[00:01:24.019]in a context that is meaningful to the field
[00:01:28.161]that you are doing research in.
[00:01:31.821]So in other words, when you write your manuscript
[00:01:34.720]think about the reviewers and the editors.
[00:01:38.168]You need to convince the reviewers and editors
[00:01:41.448]that the new knowledge in your manuscript
[00:01:44.359]is something valuable to your field.
[00:01:46.800]So you have this friend Frank
[00:01:49.419]and one morning like probably you
[00:01:53.027]before you came here today, he was having breakfast
[00:01:57.628]and he was having a bowl of Cheerios cereal for breakfast.
[00:02:01.870]Okay and as he's eating his bowl of cereal
[00:02:04.831]he realizes that he's run out of fish food.
[00:02:09.211]So Frank thought well can I feed the guppies Cheerios.
[00:02:13.599]That's what I'm eating, maybe they can eat them too.
[00:02:17.938]So hypothetically Frank gives some Cheerios
[00:02:23.009]to the guppies and they seem to really like it.
[00:02:26.419]They eat all the Cheerios and they're happy.
[00:02:31.068]So you know Frank being a researcher,
[00:02:34.178]the first thing he thinks about is
[00:02:36.509]does anyone else know about this.
[00:02:39.185]So he went into Google Scholar
[00:02:43.507]and did some searching for studies
[00:02:46.789]on guppies eating different things.
[00:02:50.400]He found some papers but nothing about them eating Cheerios.
[00:02:54.426]So he's like hey this is, there are no publications on this,
[00:02:58.890]this is a new finding.
[00:03:00.190]So I'm gonna need to write a paper about this.
[00:03:06.648]So, he knows that this observation is not enough,
[00:03:11.539]so Frank continues doing experiments
[00:03:13.510]in his home aquarium.
[00:03:15.939]He starts feeding various breakfast cereals to guppies.
[00:03:20.269]And he does a few experiments over a series of months
[00:03:24.078]and he generates five figures,
[00:03:26.919]he runs some statistics, he analyzes the data,
[00:03:30.219]and he writes a paper
[00:03:31.737]with this title, "Guppies love Cheerios".
[00:03:35.638]Okay so here are the figures he's generated.
[00:03:38.668]Figure one he has a photo of guppies eating Cheerios.
[00:03:44.299]He has the growth rate of guppies
[00:03:46.038]that were fed Cheerios only or a mix
[00:03:48.540]of Cheerios with fish food compared to fish food alone.
[00:03:55.358]The time required for guppies to eat 0.2 grams of Cheerios,
[00:03:59.299]Corn Flakes, Honey Comb, or Cap'n Crunch.
[00:04:04.477]The life span of guppies eating Cheerios versus fish food
[00:04:09.278]and the reproductive success of guppies
[00:04:11.490]eating Cheerios versus fish food.
[00:04:15.089]Spend a few minutes talking about
[00:04:17.080]whether this manuscript is publishable
[00:04:21.718]and why you think it is or why you think it is not.
[00:04:24.786](upbeat music)
[00:04:31.770]How many say yes it's publishable?
[00:04:37.029]Okay, about 10 or so.
[00:04:39.519]How many say no it's not publishable?
[00:04:43.159]Okay, so a lot more.
[00:04:45.559]A lot more say it's not publishable.
[00:04:47.150]Why do you say that?
[00:04:49.219]Let's have some discussion.
[00:04:52.908]Volunteer?
[00:04:57.135]There's no rationale for this.
[00:04:59.763]No rationale, there's no rationale, okay.
[00:05:02.710]I think that need
[00:05:04.129]a better statistical analysis.
[00:05:11.438]Okay, need a better statistical analysis, okay, yes.
[00:05:16.210]It wasn't done under
[00:05:17.926]proper controlled conditions.
[00:05:25.238]It wasn't done under proper controlled conditions, okay.
[00:05:29.340]Yes.
[00:05:30.718]It does have everything that it might be
[00:05:33.108]but the answer's so what to anything important.
[00:05:38.759]Okay may not be relevant to anything important, okay.
[00:05:43.220]That's the way to define variable
[00:05:45.588]are just not very well , the ingredients in cereal.
[00:05:52.813]Okay very good, very good, okay, nice.
[00:05:57.393]I like those answers.
[00:05:59.283]So let's keep thinking about this.
[00:06:01.681]I'm not going to say yes or no at this point.
[00:06:06.641]And let's talk about what some
[00:06:07.923]of the experts say.

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