Abstract for Workshop on Writing in English for Academic Publication
In this workshop on writing in English for academic publication, participants will first discuss their experiences as academic writers in Estonian and English and any questions and discoursal and/or socio-cultural concerns they may have about writing in English, including what institutional support is available and what support they would like to have available for their writing. Responses to the latter point will be collated and given to the workshop organizer to inform future efforts. We will then turn to a discussion of what each participant would like to accomplish in the workshop and the project on which they intend to work. Together, we will look at sample submission guidelines for a scientific publication and discuss requirements for manuscript format, how to submit, language support, and peer review. Participants may also share their own experiences with submitting articles or book proposals or suggest other topics they would like to discuss. The major part of the workshop will be spent working in disciplinary pairs on a project the participant have brought with them. This may be a query letter or a book proposal with submission guidelines from the target publisher, or it may be a draft of a journal article with submission guidelines for the target journal. Because time is limited, participants should have clear goals for what they would like to take away from this peer review session. While participants are working together, the workshop leader will circulate among them to address individual questions and concerns.
All participants should bring the following with them to the workshop: 1) a brief statement about what they want to accomplish in the workshop; 2) a draft of an article in progress or, if applicable, a query letter or a proposal for a book project; and 3) a copy of the submission guidelines for a publisher for books in their field or one or more of the journals in which they are interested in publishing (both English-medium), along with a list of questions they may have about these guidelines.