DESIGN RESEARCH DISSERTATION/ FINAL PROJECT - GENERAL ARTICLE PUBLICATION
Design Research Dissertation
Final Project/ Research of Journal Article Publication
LECTURE
Differences between thesis and article
Thesis
• Meets academic requirements
• Reviewed by select committee members
• Chapters
• Lengthy, no word limits
• Table of contents
• Lengthy research of literature
• IRB approval described in detail
• Description and copies of tools used
• All findings presented
• Verb tenses vary
Article
• Meets journalistic standards
• Reviewed by panel of blind reviewers
• Sections
• Word limits
• Manuscript format
• Succinct research of literature
• IRB described in 1 to 3 sentences
• Essential and succinct tool information
• Selected findings presented
Identify the appropriate target journal
Read the aims and scope of the journal
Most journals’ websites provide information about the recommended structure and reference style for articles
Typical structure:
• Title page
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Main text introduction
• Materials and methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Acknowledgments
• Declaration of interest statement
• References
• Appendices
• Table(s) and figure(s)
Shorten length of thesis
Journal articles are much shorter than theses/dissertations/capstones
– Require tighter framework and more compact style
– It is not a matter of copying and pasting
• Treat your thesis as a separate work
• Paraphrase and express the same ideas in a different way
• Select and repurpose
• Highlight the key points you want the readers to understand
Reformat the introduction as an abstract
Be concise!
Unless otherwise suggested, keep the introduction short and straight to the point.
Use previously published papers (at least three) from the target journal as templates
Your thesis may have more than one research question or hypothesis
• Combine research questions or focus on one for the article
Tighten the methods section
No extensive discussion needed about your research approach
Keep the method section succinct
Use previously published papers (at least three) from the target journal as templates
– Formatting may differ
– Some sections are emphasized more than others
Report main findings in results
Present the findings relevant to the research question(s)
• If you conducted exploratory analyses, provide concise statements of the findings.
Ensure discussion is clear and concise
Begin by providing an interpretation of your results
– What is it that we have learned from your research?
Do not repeat results
– Situate the findings to the literature
– How does your findings expand our perspective
– Briefly present ways in which future studies can build upon your work and address limitations in your study
Limit number of references
INSTRUCTION
For this project, we were tasked to turn out writings into a journal.
We needed to summarize our writings into the minimum arrangement that has been determined. I tried to cover everything but in a more straightforward way. Here is my KREATE:
Here is the turnitin:
I got 7% this time but I think it wasn't bad.
FEEDBACK
Dr. Hayati told us to be careful when summarizing and better focus on one research problem.
REFLECTION
REFLECTION
Writing this was tough especially when I was out of words. I had to explain the same thing but in a more straightforward way while using different sentences. I thought this project was going to be easier but turning thesis into journal was not easy at all. I had to read through everything from the start and tried to think critically on which one I should include. Since I could only put 300 - 500 words in each section, I needed to be very selective.
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