{"id":1892,"date":"2018-02-18T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T09:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/18\/turning-essays-into-journal-articles\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T09:56:23","slug":"turning-essays-into-journal-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2018\/02\/18\/turning-essays-into-journal-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning essays into journal articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a massively underused number of potential journal articles resting on teachers’ hard disks, cloud storage and flash drives.<\/p>\n

This is how I sorted out my dissertation and took some best bits from other assignments for articles.<\/div>\n

If you are interested in doing it, this might be useful. It’s how I did it and no indication of good practice.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open Word file and save as something else. Probably in a ‘working on’ file.<\/li>\n
  2. Go through the dissertation. You need it to be between 3000-7500 words including references.<\/li>\n
  3. 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.<\/li>\n
  4. 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.<\/li>\n
  5. Results. Maybe you just need to give the results, maybe you need a minimum explanation.<\/li>\n
  6. Methodology. Keep the what and unless you did something crazy and new, discard most of the why. How should be bare bones.<\/li>\n
  7. OMG. Still over. Check refs. Do your quotes need to be full quotes?<\/li>\n
  8. Damn. Sacrifice your favourite bit that is a bit odd. Is it coherent?<\/li>\n
  9. Finished? No. You have to strip the metadata in preparation for a double blind.<\/li>\n
  10. Set aside at least two hours to submit.<\/li>\n
  11. Rest for 3-9 months. Seriously.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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    2. Go through the dissertation. You need it to be between 3000-7500 words including references.<\/li>\n
    3. 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.<\/li>\n
    4. 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.<\/li>\n
    5. Results. Maybe you just need to give the results, maybe you need a minimum explanation.<\/li>\n
    6. Methodology. Keep the what and unless you did something crazy and new, discard most of the why. How should be bare bones.<\/li>\n
    7. OMG. Still over. Check refs. Do your quotes need to be full quotes?<\/li>\n
    8. Damn. Sacrifice your favourite bit that is a bit odd. Is it coherent?<\/li>\n
    9. Finished? No. You have to strip the metadata in preparation for a double blind.<\/li>\n
    10. Set aside at least two hours to submit.<\/li>\n
    11. Rest for 3-9 months. Seriously.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      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.<\/div>\n

      Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[36,146,302],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-uw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}