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Facilitator(s)

Ingrid Ulbrich

Why?

In the Classification of Learning Skills, Process 1 of the Social Domain is Communicating and includes the skill, “Writing formally: following specific conventions and formatting standards.” The International Journal of Process Education is committed to publishing formal and scholarly (peer-reviewed) research focused on Process Education and upholds the following criteria for the work it publishes (available on the For Authors page): “(manuscripts submitted should) adhere to journal standards and style and exhibit a high level of quality and attention to details.” Among the IJPE’s guiding principles is the concept that “Every researcher’s methods can be continuously improved.” This workshop has been created specifically to help authors improve their methods by becoming familiar with the IJPE’s “journal standards” as found in the IJPE Style Guide and following those specific conventions and formatting standards. Meeting IJPE’s requirements is far more than just coloring within specific lines, however; the standards to which the IJPE hews are very similar to the standards of other professional journals. Learning to improve your work as a researcher includes learning to make your work accessible to the audience for which you write. In order to do that, you must also ensure that the documentation of your research is acceptable to publishers, such as the IJPE.

Resources

The IJPE Style Guide available HERE

Plan

Before the session:

Access or download the IJPE Style Guide.
Answer these Exploration Questions on the forum for the session before the session begins.
1. What are the major areas of formatting specified in the IJPE Style Guide?
2. Choose an item from the Pre-Submission/Finalization Checklist and describe how you proof manuscripts for this item.
3. What software have you employed in the past for managing citations? What do you like or dislike about it? If you haven’t used citation software, what has prevented you from using it?
Review the plans for Part A and Part B of the session, and prepare to participate.

Part A (Style Guide Scavenger Hunt)

During the session:

Welcome (2 min)
Brief summary of goals for session (3 min)
Address what people wrote in their responses to the exploration questions (2 min)
Q&A about topic/reading, and explain activity logistics (5 min)
Activity: Breakout groups complete the scavenger hunt (20 min)
Reporting out from teams of top insights gained: Link to forum topic (10 min)

Part B (Interactive Demo of Zotero Citation Software)