This course is designed for a small cohort of four researchers actively drafting manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals. The cohort can be comprised of four researchers from your group. Each participant develops and completes a manuscript of competitive quality in 10 weeks. The course is a hybrid of master class and workshop.

In our weekly two-hour group session, I demonstrate best practices in manuscript writing while leading the cohort in conceptual, developmental, and line editing of one another’s manuscripts.

Cohort members and I serve as critical readers, asking astute questions that push authors to:

• • write an accurate and compelling title and abstract
  • build a strong case for their work in the introduction
  • achieve clarity and precision in the methods section
  • present findings in a logical and understandable manner
  • construct a focused discussion that gives context to the findings
  • write a conclusion that matches the data

After 10 weeks at this level of intense writing and editing, each researcher will have produced a superb manuscript draft to send to their co-authors for review. Because their coauthors are receiving a polished draft, coauthors can concentrate on contributing points that bolster the case for the work (rather than wasting their time on editing).

BENEFITS

• • Completes a manuscript of competitive quality in 10 weeks.
  • Acquires professional writing skills.
  • Incorporates transformative feedback.
  • Establishes a sustainable writing practice.