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  1. Journal article

    Writing a journal article is the traditional way to share academic research with an audience in your research field. Academic journal articles are peer-reviewed and formally written, with writing conventions and rules that differ across journals and disciplines. Although these rules are important to follow, don't lose sight of your main goal ...

  2. PDF ACADEMIC WRITING

    brought an essay called "In Defense of Polonius" for JSTOR Daily—which is the article tracked from initial idea to published piece in The Writing Process segments of this book. I am grateful to students, colleagues, editors, readers, audiences, and interlocutors for comments and conversations about these ideas.

  3. Journal Article

    A journal article is considered a piece of research that has been published in a peer-reviewed academic or scientific journal. The first step in publishing an article is submitting it to a journal ...

  4. Write and structure a journal article well

    Abstract. The purpose of your abstract is to express the key points of your research, clearly and concisely. An abstract must always be well considered, as it is the primary element of your work that readers will come across. An abstract should be a short paragraph (around 300 words) that summarizes the findings of your journal article.

  5. What Is Academic Writing?

    Academic writing is a formal style of writing used in universities and scholarly publications. You'll encounter it in journal articles and books on academic topics, and you'll be expected to write your essays, research papers, and dissertation in academic style. Academic writing follows the same writing process as other types of texts, but ...

  6. Writing for publication: Structure, form, content, and journal

    This article provides an overview of writing for publication in peer-reviewed journals. While the main focus is on writing a research article, it also provides guidance on factors influencing journal selection, including journal scope, intended audience for the findings, open access requirements, and journal citation metrics.

  7. Journal Writing

    A journal definition is a record of thoughts, experiences, and observations that have been written down. This is different from a diary, which is a record of what happens each day as things happen ...

  8. Structure of a Scholarly Article

    It is a full-length document on original research. A scholarly article generally consists of the background of a research topic, its study design and methodology, the results of the study, and then its conclusion. The scholarly articles or publications used to inform the research are listed at the end of the article as its references or works ...

  9. (PDF) Academic writing: the essay

    The essay is a particular genre of writing that is at the heart of academic writing today. Criteria of excellence in this genre have been identified, and should be observed. All essay. writers ...

  10. Writing the Conceptual Article: A Practical Guide

    This article provides a guide to this task, organized around the process of concept explication—the development of theoretical concepts with careful attention to the interplay between their definition and measurement. From ideation to the final writing stage, one must carefully specify how these concepts are connected together in a broader ...

  11. Essay

    Essay. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization ...

  12. Finding and Reading Journal Articles

    Think of journal articles as the way you tap into the ongoing scholarly conversation, as a way of testing the currency of a finding, analysis, or argumentative position, and a way of bolstering the authority (or plausibility) of explanations you'll offer in the papers and projects you'll complete at Harvard.

  13. Difference Between Article and Essay (with Comparison Chart)

    An article is nothing but a piece of writing commonly found in newspapers or websites which contain fact-based information on a specific topic. It is published with the aim of making the reader aware of something and keeping them up to date. An essay is a literary work, which often discusses ideas, experiences and concepts in a clear and coherent way. . It reflects the author's personal view ...

  14. How to Review a Journal Article

    Before getting started on the critique, it is important to review the article thoroughly and critically. To do this, we recommend take notes, annotating, and reading the article several times before critiquing. As you read, be sure to note important items like the thesis, purpose, research questions, hypotheses, methods, evidence, key findings ...

  15. Guide to Scholarly Articles

    Getting Started. Scholarship is a conversation. That conversation is often found in the form of published materials such as books, essays, and articles. Here, we will focus on scholarly articles because scholarly articles often contain the most current scholarly conversation. After reading through this guide on scholarly articles you will be ...

  16. Writing an Article Critique

    Before you start writing, you will need to take some steps to get ready for your critique: Choose an article that meets the criteria outlined by your instructor. Read the article to get an understanding of the main idea. Read the article again with a critical eye. As you read, take note of the following: What are the credentials of the author/s?

  17. Full article: Integrity: What it is and Why it is Important

    The fact that integrity concerns all members of an organization or system makes the involvement of leadership on all levels inherently important to policy success. This involvement is part of the aforementioned necessity to position integrity high on the agenda. Leadership, however, is no panacea.

  18. Full article: Defining the characteristics of poverty and their

    The individual- and context-specific nature of poverty also influences the poverty analysis process. It helps poverty analysts to capture variations of the nature and severity of poverty according to age and gender as well as social, cultural, economic, political, environmental and spatial contexts. 3.4.

  19. How to craft introductions to journal essays (opinion)

    In this article, our thesis is threefold. First, there are many effective strategies for building up to that statement. Second, underlying these strategies is a smaller set of common purposes. And finally, working with an awareness of both the first and second principles is a sound way to write strong introductions. Strategies and Purposes.

  20. Journal article references

    If a journal article has a DOI, include the DOI in the reference. Always include the issue number for a journal article. If the journal article does not have a DOI and is from an academic research database, end the reference after the page range (for an explanation of why, see the database information page).The reference in this case is the same as for a print journal article.

  21. Full article: Editor's essay: Thoughts on theory

    The primary purpose of the Journal of Public Relations Research, since its founding, has been to help create, test, refine, or expand theory in public relations. Since commencing my editorship of this journal (work year 2015, credit year 2016), I have come to the chagrined realization that our journal's very purpose is misunderstood by some ...

  22. (PDF) What is globalisation?

    In its general definition, globalization can be defined as an extensive network of. economic, cultural, social and political interconnections and processes which goes beyond. national boundaries ...

  23. The neuroscience of depressive disorders: A brief ...

    In this essay, we have briefly reviewed a selected range of key discoveries that neuroscientific research has made on the topic of depressive disorders in the last decades. We have shown that depression has been linked to a wide range of abnormalities on different levels of neuroscientific description ranging from molecules and cells to brain ...