JAW.1.ResCult Abst.10

7/29/2019 JAW.1.ResCult Abst.10

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Academic Skills and Learning Centre

Writing Journal Articles in English

Part 1: Orientation to Abstract (~20 slides)

Teaching notes


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Orienting yourself to publication

Research culture

Purpose

The Abstract

Action

Writing

Discussion

Report back


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Exercise: Taking stock, thinking ahead

Write for 5 minutes:

What have you written andpublished in the past?

What kind of publications

do you want to produce -

and when?

Discuss with your partner (5 mins)

+ How many words

did you write?


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What is a research culture?

The structure in whichenable you, as aresearcher, to produce,

communicate, andunderstand newknowledge.

The behaviours that enableyou, as a researcher, to

create and disseminateknowledge to others.

Research culture considerations

Institutional expectationsand support

Balanced expectations(e.g., teaching,administration, research)

Reading groups

Collegial support andencouragement

Writing review

Seminar programs

Conferencepresentations

Publication


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Research barriers and opportunities

Role statement

Perfomance expectations

Teaching expectations

Research training skills Library materials and skills

Time

Research dissemination

Language

Focus on promotion

Project oriented research

Academic publication Constructive feedback

Peer review

Which of these

might be a barrier?

An opportunity? 10


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Exercise: research culture

Discuss with your partner (5/5)

What is your research

culture?

Identify three facilitators of

research culture.

Identify three barriers to

research culture.

Where would you publish if

you could?Report back

10mins


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Academic researcher voices

[M]any [researchers] do not get

engaged in real scientific research.

They just see doing research as a

way to earn extra income andgetting other rewards such as

being positively evaluated for their

annual work. Bao [8]

Pham Hoa Hiep, 2006. Researching the research culture in English

language education in Vietnam, TESL-EJ, September, 10 (2).

Sometimes the feedback is

destructive rather than

constructive [Assessors] do not

ask questions with a view to

helping the presenter do better but

they tend to challenge, and test the

researcher's knowledge,

sometimes to make her lose

face Xuan [8]


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Where to publish?

Consider where to publish

What are relevant

Indonesian journals? What are relevant regional

journals?

Discuss (5/5) and report

back (10)


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Audience: which?

Academics?

Indonesian, regional, international?

Non-academics, but interested, readers?

Knowledge of audience/readership determines the

level of assumption and explanation, and style ofcommunication.


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Comment on the audience

Currently, the major thrust of orthopaedic clinical research should bedirected toward documentation of the outcomes of treatment in terms ofthe physical and economic conditions of patients

J.J. Garland, 1988. Orthopaedic clinical design: deficiencies in experimental design and determinations of outcome J Bone Joint Surge Am.70:1357.

Immobilization in singleleg spica casting works well (88%-95%) for moststable fractures, if patients are not large, obese, polytraumatized, or donot have soft tissue problems. High energy fractures (even transverseand short oblique) with 2 cm of initial shortening as noted on the originalradiograph without traction, have disrupted soft tissue envelope anddisplacement in the cast in up to 50% of patients

E. Kali and M. Cruz, 2007. Current Concepts in Pediatric Femur Fracture Treatment,Orthopaedics December: http://www.orthosupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=25283


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Having a purpose in mind

What do you want to persuade, with evidence, the

audience to think, believe, do?

What do you think needs to be communicated and

why?

Whats puzzling, intriguing, interesting?

Is there a silence that needs to be addressed?

Is there an anomalous practice/approach?...


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Exercise: identify audience and purpose

Write down

What you want to communicate

To whom?

Why?

(100 words) (5)

Discuss and report back (5/10)


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Abstract

Reader questions

Should I bother with reading this?

If so, what might benew/innovative/challenging/interesting/exciting about this?

Useful in nutting out what you want to communicate to the reader

Keep it as a work-in-progress until you finish the article


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Abstract

In what context did you do

What?

Why?

How?

and

What did you find?

What are the implications of your finding/s?


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Sample Abstract 1: Science

[Research Context] The validity of the designs of somepublished orthopaedic clinical-research publications has beenquestioned. [Purpose of current research what was done] Totest the validity of these criticisms, ten published reports on the surgical

treatment of patients who had a selected diagnosis were reviewed [Why]to evaluate the strategies that had been used in the design of thestudies [How] Ten articles on the long-term follow up treatment afterprimary total hip arthroplasty for the treatment of osteoarthritis, publishedin peer-reviewed journals, were examined [Finding] All ten articleswere found to be deficient in terms of design, to be flawed by confusingdata, and to contain results of doubtful validity [Implication] In the

future, reports on orthopaedic clinical research must focus more on thehealth of, and economics benefits to, the patients, and less on theoutcome of the technology that was used in providing the services.Source: JJ Gartland, 1988 Orthopaedic clinical research. Deficiencies in experimental design and determinations ofoutcome, TheJournal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 70, Issue 9 1357-1364.


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Exercise: Sample Abstracts in WorkbookChoose one abstract: Humanities or Science

How long is it?

How is it structured?

What are the indications of Abstract moves?

Review (15) and report back (10)


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Exercise: what improvements?

How might this Abstract be improved? Discuss (5) and report back

(5)

White collar crime in Singapore: then and now

This article attempts to give an overview of what constitutes white-collar

crime, highlighting some of the more significant milestones of such in

Singapores history, and perhaps also attempting to describe the rends

which can be observed. It is perhaps a timely review, because the

incidence of white-collar crime is escalating, as newspaper headlinesbear this out regularly.

L. Anparasan, 2009.White collar crime in Singapore: then and now. 21. SAcLJ 16 2009 Retrieved from HeinOnline: http://heinonline.orgMonday 19 July. p. 16.


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Exercise: Draft your abstract

10 minutes to draft your abstract. Discuss with your partner

What is clear?

What needs to beexplained/made explicit?

How can the work be

strengthened?


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Orientation to JA writing: for next session

Homework: review your journal article:

How long is it?

E.g.,

Science =3-4,000 words

Arts/Humanities = 6-10,000 words

Law = 6-15,000 words

What are its organisational features (structure, order, headings)?

How many paragraphs are used for the Introduction and Conclusion? How long are the paragraphs?


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Publication opportunities other than journals

Letter to the editor

Op-ed

Reflection

Short communication Conference poster abstract

Research/dissertation

summaries

Book review

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