Guiding Question:
What makes an educational research paper publishable?

Learning Objectives

• explain the purposes of scholarly publication;

• identify major components of educational research articles;

• recognize variation in article structures;

• identify audience, purpose, argument, evidence, and contribution;

• identify a potential publication project.

Topics

• Academic publishing as scholarly communication

• Research writing as knowledge-making

• Scholarly communities and audiences

• Anatomy of an educational research article

• Empirical and conceptual articles

• From master's research to publication

• What makes research publishable?

• Publication and research ethics

Mentor Reading

Furberg, A., & Silseth, K. (2022). Invoking student resources in whole-class conversations in science education: A sociocultural perspective. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 31(2), 278–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2021.1954521

Reading Questions

• What educational problem does the paper address?

• Why does it matter?

• What scholarly conversation are the authors entering?

• What did they investigate?

• What do they claim?

• What evidence supports the claims?

• What does the paper contribute?

Workshop

Construct a visual map of the article's intellectual architecture, addressing the following components in the article:

PROBLEM → WHAT WE KNOW → WHAT IS MISSING → RESEARCH QUESTION → THEORETICAL LENS → METHODS/EVIDENCE → KEY FINDINGS → CONTRIBUTION

Writing Studio Task — My Research Publication Project

Prepare a 1–2 page description addressing:

• What research could form the basis of your article?

• What educational problem or phenomenon does it address?

• What research question(s) guide the work?

• Why might the research matter?

• Who might be interested in reading it?

• What stage is the research currently at?