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Getting your work published.Newest Review: ... they put it). This sort of discussion is invaluable for students, as it gives the benefit of the experience of the examiners, who also know your work well enough to offer guidance on where to target different aspects of your research, and which elements would work as stand-alone papers. If you are a postgraduate student, it is well worth trying to have such a conversation with your tutors or examiners about possible publication (undergraduate dissertations are unlikely to be substantive enough to become a paper in their own right without extra work/research, and only then when there is something sufficiently novel or important for journals... more |
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Read Reviews for Getting your work published.

by - written on 04/04/08 (Very useful, 258 readings)
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Unsurprisingly for someone who has loitered around dooyoo for seven years, one of my ambitions from childhood was to be a published writer. I have written regularly since I started primary school, where a couple of wonderful teachers were very influential in encouraging my ambition and love of words; by the time I was 10, such was my verbosity that it became a running joke in my class that I had "swallowed a dictionary"! I wrote all sorts at this time, but most of all I loved writing stories; it was ambition for a long time to be a novelist when I grew up*. Unfortunately, the bog-standard comprehensive I later attended had no such lofty ideals about encouraging ... Read the complete review
by - written on 16/03/08 (Very useful, 88 readings)
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"Getting your work published" is a very broad title, but if you write a review on Dooyoo, then you are already having your work published. Even if all you write are comments on others' reviews, your own work is being published. But why stop there? Maybe you want to become a published writer of books or write for magazines, but don't know how to set about it. There are lots of books out there about how to become a writer, how to write that novel or how to write for children. There are magazines, such as Writers Forum and Writing Magazine, which are available at W H Smiths and other good booksellers. All these things give the aspiring ... Read the complete review


