There is a massively underused number of potential journal articles resting on teachers’ hard disks, cloud storage and flash drives.
This is how I sorted out my dissertation and took some best bits from other assignments for articles.
If you are interested in doing it, this might be useful. It’s how I did it and no indication of good practice.
- Open Word file and save as something else. Probably in a ‘working on’ file.
- Go through the dissertation. You need it to be between 3000-7500 words including references.
- You will keep much of the literature review unless you have a long lit review or a literature review of several parts. What is essential. Feel free to come back this later.
- Discussion and evaluation. Cut the fat. If you are doing half the dissertation this means only the pertinent bits. The evaluation only needs your caveats, probably.
- Results. Maybe you just need to give the results, maybe you need a minimum explanation.
- Methodology. Keep the what and unless you did something crazy and new, discard most of the why. How should be bare bones.
- OMG. Still over. Check refs. Do your quotes need to be full quotes?
- Damn. Sacrifice your favourite bit that is a bit odd. Is it coherent?
- Finished? No. You have to strip the metadata in preparation for a double blind.
- Set aside at least two hours to submit.
- Rest for 3-9 months. Seriously.
- Go through the dissertation. You need it to be between 3000-7500 words including references.
- You will keep much of the literature review unless you have a long lit review or a literature review of several parts. What is essential. Feel free to come back this later.
- Discussion and evaluation. Cut the fat. If you are doing half the dissertation this means only the pertinent bits. The evaluation only needs your caveats, probably.
- Results. Maybe you just need to give the results, maybe you need a minimum explanation.
- Methodology. Keep the what and unless you did something crazy and new, discard most of the why. How should be bare bones.
- OMG. Still over. Check refs. Do your quotes need to be full quotes?
- Damn. Sacrifice your favourite bit that is a bit odd. Is it coherent?
- Finished? No. You have to strip the metadata in preparation for a double blind.
- Set aside at least two hours to submit.
- Rest for 3-9 months. Seriously.
This is just my experience. I used part of the Applied Linguistics module, my DipTESOL independent research project, a corpora essay and half my dissertation.
Good luck!