Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week 7

Agenda

Part 1. How do you communicate your work? Writing, publishing, and reviewing

• Intro to the challenge (5 min)
• Writing activity/discussion (20 min)

Prompt: Reflect on the process you followed to develop the final project abstract you submitted for the class this week. Please try, with as much accuracy as possible/reasonable, to identify/list key steps or stages in the process by which you developed and completed this document.

• Publishing (20 min)
  • Explore/discuss Aaron's three crude process diagrams (CHI; Journal of Communication; Science Advances)
• Peer reviewing (35 min)
  • Peer review discussion provocations (three key themes below)
    • The structure/incentives of peer review
    • Being an effective, generous, responsible reviewer
    • Navigating tricky, low quality, and/or misguided reviews

Part 2. Guests

• Larissa Buchholz and Jim Schwoch