1. Planning your paper

2. Welcome
Session overview
Length – 1 hour
Presentations and activities
Ground Rules
Raise hand for urgent questions
Use chat for general questions and activities
Arriving late/leaving early

3. Learning outcomes
At the end of this workshop, you will:
be aware of the different types of paper commonly
published;
recognise the typical elements in a paper structure;
be able to start to develop a paper outline.

4. Last session, we looked at...
Types of publications and outlets
What makes a good paper?
Things to consider when choosing where to publish.
How to read a call for papers.
Any questions?

5. Activity: what types of paper are there?
From your own reading, please add your ideas to the
chat window.

6. Types of paper
presentation of original research
descriptive case study
theoretical paper
literature review
meta-review
thought piece

7. Structure of a paper
Introduction
Background
Methodology
Data collection methods
Data analysis methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusions

8. Introduction
What is the paper about?
Who is it aimed at?
What type of paper is it?
What is the structure of the paper?

9. Background
Why is this paper important?
Why did you carry out the work?
Who influenced you?
What is the 'state of the art' in the field?
What are your research questions?

10. Methodology
What are your philosophical assumptions?
What type of research are you describing?
What data collection/generation methods did you
use?
What data analysis methods did you use?
Why did you use this approach?

11. Results
What did you find out?
What evidence/examples show your findings?
How valid, reliable and generalisable are your
findings?

12. Discussion
What are the wider implications of your research?
What are the limitations of your research?
How do your findings relate to the field?
How do your findings relate to your research
questions?

13. Conclusions
Why is this paper important?
What can others learn from your work?
What is the key message?
What are the next steps?

14. Some tips to get started
Decide what sort of paper you are writing
Find another paper of that type to use as an example
Start with the generic structure and add bullets under
each point
Think of each bullet as a paragraph
Check the flow of your argument
Add estimated word counts for sections
Write something – you can always change it later
Customise the structure to suit your own paper