Workshop: Reviews, Rebuttal, Revision: Tips and Tricks for Publishing in Refereed Journals

Reviews, Rebuttal, Revision: Tips and Tricks for Publishing in Refereed Journals

Target Group

Faculty who (intend to) publish in international, refereed journals and wish to learn more about the reviewing process.

Workshop Aims

In this workshop, a journal editor and a linguist join forces to address key issues that arise during the review process. By the end of the module, participants should be able to:
 

• Take a strategic approach to the peer-review process
• Appreciate the role that language plays in the reviewing cycle – when writing reviews as well as when responding to them
• Deploy language strategically so that their voice comes across as authoritative, persuasive and polite

Workshop Content

• The peer review process as both challenge and opportunity
• Key strategies for giving constructive criticism and responding to it politely

Location, date and time

Thursday, 12 April 2018, 2.00 pm - 6.00 pm
Thursday, 26 April 2018, 2.00 am - 6.00 pm
 

All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.

Fees and Registration

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 29 March 2018.
Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

The course fee is €20.

Trainer

Prof. Dr. Gerlinde Mautner   Professor of English Business Communication, WU Honorary Visiting Professor, Cass Business School (City University, London, UK) Research focus: organisational and marketing communication; critical discourse analysis; legal discourse (see https://www.wu.ac.at/ebc/about-us/team/gerlinde-mautner/ Frequently conducts research at British universities Has published widely in international outlets Acts as a reviewer for top-rated journals Many years of experience in training post-docs and faculty in academic writing Author of Wissenschaftliches Englisch: Stilsicher Schreiben in Studium und Wissenschaft (utb 3444; Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed., 2016) and Discourse and Management: Critical Perspectives Through the Language Lens (Palgrave, 2016).   Foto: FWF / Lusser

Prof. Dr.  Ruth Simsa   Professor for Sociology at the Department for Socioeconomics at WU Editor-in-Chief of VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Academic director of WU’s Competence Center for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurship Acts as a reviewer and board member for top-rated journals Research focus: Social movement organizations, Nonprofit-Organizations, Leadership https://www.wu.ac.at/sozio/institut/wissenschaftliches-personal/simsa-ruth/