英文论文发表国际期刊心得分享.ppt

英文論文發表國際期刊心得分享
分享者: 曾文鐽(英語系助理教授)
學歷: 英國Nottingham University
哲學博士
Outline
Paper per se : Originality, Criticality and
Integrity
My Study as an Example
Finding an Appropriate Journal
A Heuristic Model
Originality
Criticality
Integrity
Ask yourself a question:
My research/study/project is original in…
What is ‘originality’? According to Francis (1976)
1. Carrying out empirical work that hasn’t been done before.
2. Making a synthesis that hasn’t been made before.
3. Using already known material but with a new interpretation
4. Trying out something in [your] country that has previously only been done in other countries.
Originality
Cont.
5. Taking a particular technique and applying it in a new area.
6. Bringing new evidence to bear on an old issue.
7. Being cross-disciplinary and using different methodologies.
8. Looking at areas that people in the discipline haven’t looked at before.
9. Adding to knowledge in a way that hasn’t previously been done before.
All in all, we have to
- build a clear link to a significant theory
- focus on only one point and research it in
detail/depth
Hart (1998)
1. Distinguishing what has been done from what needs to be done.
2. Discovering important variables relevant to the topic.
3. Synthesizing and gaining a new perspective.
4 Identifying relationships between ideas and practice.
5. Establishing the context of the topic or problem.
Criticality
Cont.
6. Rationalizing the significance of the problem
7. Enhancing and acquiring the subject vocabulary.
8. Understanding the structure of the subject.
9. Relating ideas and theory to applications
10. Identifying the main methodologies and research techniques
that have been used.
11. Placing the research in a historical context to show familiarity
with state-of-the-art developments.
Issues in Research Design (Pattern, 1990)
1. What is the purpose of the study?
2. What is the scope of the study?
3. What are the units of analysis?
4. What is