Publishing
Publishing is not just for best-selling authors or journalists working for news media. Anyone who produces a finished piece and shares it with a wider audience is a published author. You probably have already published work of your own prior to this research paper. Have you ever considered yourself a published writer? What does publishing mean exactly? View this presentation for a brief overview of publishing along with some general guidelines regarding the technical aspects of your research paper. Click the player button to begin.
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Options for Publishing Your Paper
In addition to submitting your final paper to your instructor, consider publishing your Below are suggestions for publishing your paper:
Reflecting
Although reflecting is the final step of the writing process, it is probably the most important when it comes to developing your skills as a writer. One reason that reflecting is so important to learning is that it is a form of metacognition, or thinking about thinking. It is possible to learn new tasks without much thinking, such as relying on muscle memory for repetitive physical movements. But a higher level of thinking takes deliberate reflection on learning. In other words, you need to purposefully think about learning in order to learn lessons that you can apply in the future. In this interactivity, take a moment to review some questions that you can ask yourself during the reflecting step of the writing process. Click the player button to begin.
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Publishing and Reflecting Review
Now that you have explored the publishing and reflecting steps of the writing process, it is time to review your knowledge and practice what you have learned. In this non-graded activity, read the statements and decide whether they are true or false. Click the player button to get started.