wicked manuscript outline

Hallelujah for academic templates! Wicked Anomie has brilliantly one-upped my research statement to lay out a basic template for a research paper. Although she notes that her outline best applies to quantitative work, I have found it helpful in the past to teach my qualitative students a (much more crude) basic layout of a quantitative paper as a starting point. It can be modified to suit the needs of the paper, but starting with this lends some structure to what often feels like unruly data.

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4 Comments

  1. brammelaar
    Posted March 6, 2008 at 3:35 pm | Permalink

    Brilliant! Thanks a lot for pointing us there.

    Both the research statement and manuscript thingy come at a marvellously good time for me.

  2. unqualifiedassertions
    Posted March 6, 2008 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

    As a graduate student completing my first manuscript review, I panicked and searched the internet for a reviewing how-to guide, which brought me to the following website: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~aslee/referee.htm#SUGGEST1

    Though I have no reviewing expertise, I’ve found this outline extremely helpful. I’m wondering if more experienced reviewers think this is a decent model to follow, despite the clearly different disciplinary orientation. Also, if you don’t think this is a helpful guide, I’d love to know what you see as its limitations and/or where I might find a better guide.

    Thanks for any comments you have!

  3. unqualifiedassertions
    Posted March 6, 2008 at 4:00 pm | Permalink

    Sorry, here’s the link to the top of the page: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~aslee/referee.htm

  4. krippendorf
    Posted March 7, 2008 at 11:39 am | Permalink

    8 pages of lit review? Uggh.

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