Skip to Main Content
Before you publish or present, make sure you've done these things:
- Discussed your ideas with your faculty mentor.
- They will make sure you are following appropriate procedures.
- Often students have bigger plans for publication or presentation than are manageable in the timeframe. Your mentor can help you to keep the work feasible.
- Create a timeline with your mentor of what the steps will be and the general order and time frame they need to happen in.
- Make sure you are in IRB compliance. Don't know what that means? STOP and TALK to your mentor.
- Conducted a review of the evidence (often meaning literature) on the topic.
- Be as extensive as you need to be.
- You may need to go back more than five years depending on your subject and audience.
- Get help from your librarian early. They can help you determine the scope of review you need and the best way to narrow your focus.
- Outline what you want to talk about
- No matter if you are writing or presenting, you need to know what it is you want to say before you say it. An outline can really help with this
- Go over your outline with your mentor and/or the Writing Center.
- Before you start, have a journal or conference you plan to submit to.
- You need to know where you are sharing your hard work before you actually sit down to create it, that way you know what requirements they have.
- Make sure your outline matches the requirements of the journal or conference for content, subject, and general length.
- Keep a copy of the requirements next to you as you work and refer to them frequently.
- Revise, Revise, and Revise again
- Make sure to proof read your article, slides, or poster. Have several other people look it over.
- When you think you are done, set it aside. Wait a few days. Review it again. Repeat as time allows.
- There comes a point, however, when you just have to submit something. Don't be shy - get your work out there.
