1. Publishing your Research Dr. David O’Sullivan

2. Publishing your Research Academic Writing  Academic writing is meant for a critical and informed audience, based on investigated knowledge, and uses hypothesis, theory, or prototypes to arrive at a conclusion.  It is objective, explains why the research is important, and organized so that other scholars can try to reproduce the results. Academic writing utilizes formal language.

3. Publishing your Research Mission  Create and Disseminate new Knowledge  Creating is adsorbing and exciting  Disseminating is time consuming and often dull Creating Disseminating

4. Publishing your Research Seven tips for effective writing 1.Understand your research goals 2.Find a focus for your research 3.Get to know the writing environment 4.Develop a consistent layout and structure 5.Develop highly effective writing style 6.Master the tools of the trade 7.Understand the publishing process

5. Publishing your Research 1. Understand your research goals  Research Domain  Scope (Breadth vs. Depth)  Issues Arising and Problems  Research Goals Understand domain Current solutions and research Hypothesis Results Discussion

6. Publishing your Research Applied vs. Basic Science  “… in what ways could the use of databases for a specific type of business be improved…?”  “… in what ways could databases be improved…?”

7. Publishing your Research Hypothetico-deductive Model 1.Use your experience: consider the problem and try to make sense of it. Gather data and look for previous explanations 2.Form a conjecture (hypothesis): When nothing else is yet known, try to state an explanation 3.Deduce predictions from the hypothesis: if you assume 2 is true, what consequences follow? 4.Test (or Experiment): Look for evidence (observations) that conflict with your predictions in order to disprove

8. Publishing your Research 2. Finding a focus for your research  Creativity “Bringing Unrelated Things Together”

9. Publishing your Research Bringing Unrelated Things Together Topic 1 Topic 2Topic 3 Topic 4 (Innovation) (Intranet)(Teams) (Semantics) Semantic Innovation Management across the Extended Enterprise

10. Publishing your Research Getting Research Ideas  Become an Active Reader and Listener  Passive vs. active and critical learning style. From where did the author seem to draw the ideas? What exactly was accomplished by this piece of work? Is it, in fact, a good piece of work at all? How does it seem to relate to other work in the field? What would be the reasonable next step to build upon this work? What ideas from related fields might be brought to bear upon this subject?

11. Publishing your Research 3. Get to know the writing environment  Top seven journals/publishers in your field?  High ‘Impact Factor’ (ISI)  Top 60 publications in your field?  Create a ‘Publications Boxfile’

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13. Publishing your Research 4. Layout and structure  Title  Abstract  Introduction  Literature Survey  Results (Solution)  Discussion/Conclusions  References

14. Publishing your Research 5. Develop an effective writing style  Write objectively  Eliminate immature sentences jargon, acronyms colloquialisms  Avoid deviating from main structure

15. Publishing your Research Correct the Paragraph  I find that confusion often “clouds” the exact meaning of the term innovation. Tidd et al. (1997) have excellent findings that state that “novelty is very much in the eye of the beholder”. In it’s broadest sense, the term originates from the Latin innovare, meaning “to make something new”. Its obvious that innovation is a process of turning opportunity into new ideas and of putting these ideas into widely used practice [Ref]. According to Tidd et al. (1997), innovation is a core process concerned with renewing what the organization offers and optimising the way it generates and delivers its output. We are all aware of the importance of innovation for business growth and there are many advantages. Howard (2003) discusses 5 disadvantages. Overall there is a need for a new paradigm in the way we conceptualise and materialise innovation. Use of “I” Invalid quotes Subjective Misspelling ‘Its’ Informal Says who? Incomplete Bull “five” Misspelling and Subjective

16. Publishing your Research 6. Master the tools of the trade  MS Word, Latex, etc.  EndNote, Bibtext, etc.  Powerpoint, Visio, etc. Create ‘simple’ diagrams and tables  No more than seven graphic elements!  No more than 7c x 14r tables!  Turnitin

17. Publishing your Research Plagiarism  “The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft.” [Oxford English Dictionary]  Provide proper citations for all quotations, summaries, paraphrases, or any other work or idea that is borrowed from others

18. Publishing your Research 7. Understand the publishing process  Contact with editor/supervisor  Prepare and submit manuscript  Reviewers comments  Revised manuscript  Compromise often required  Remain humble and flexible Remember your goal!

19. Publishing your Research Reviewer Forms  Relevance  Contribution  Originality  Quality  Content Title, Abstract, Introduction and Motivation, Review of Related Work, Soundness of Body of Paper  Comments Publish as Is; Publish with Minor Changes; Paper has Potential (Major changes); Unsuitable

20. Publishing your Research Another Brick in the Wall  Every author needs some ‘goodwill’ from his reviewer  Poor writing reduces ‘goodwill’ regardless of the value of ideas

21. Publishing your Research Anatomy of Good Report Clear Title

22. Publishing your Research Excellent Abstract (Summary)

23. Publishing your Research Citation Laden Introduction

24. Publishing your Research Clear Goal

25. Publishing your Research Good Structure

26. Publishing your Research Clear Diagrams and Tables

27. Publishing your Research Excellent and Current References

28. Publishing your Research Hypothesis Tested

29. Publishing your Research Your Ideas...