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• Title: Writing It up: Getting Your LIS Research out There (Report)
• Author : Australian Academic&Research Libraries
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 211 KB

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This paper is intended to assist new practitioner researchers in beginning to write for publication. It aims to offer some concrete advice on ways to get the message of your research across. Carrying out the research is only beginning of the process: to be valuable, the findings, conclusions, and lessons learned through research need to be disseminated both to internal stakeholders and a wider audience. Writing up research is the final stage of a research project. It assumes researchers have conducted the research project using appropriate research approaches, methods, and data collection and analysis techniques. Many excellent texts exist to assist you in conducting research, some specific to the LIS field (e.g. Williamson 2002; Powell&Connaway 2004; Pickard 2007; Wildemuth 2009) and some more generally for the social sciences, but still very valuable (e.g. Bryman 2008, Leedy and Ormrod 2010; Neuman 2011). These texts also usually contain chapters or sections about writing up research, often directed to those writing dissertations and theses, but still extremely useful to all beginning researchers and writers. The readers of this paper are encouraged to follow up by reading more widely in this literature. Once you have completed the research project, you need to communicate and disseminate your results. Whether it is within your organisation, to inform organisational decision making or planning, or destined to be shared more widely through journals or conferences, wikis or blogs, developing a good, effective, and concise research report is an art form in itself. There are many ways to do it, and different types of research reports contain different types of information, expressed in different ways. There are many aspects to consider: for example, will the audience want or require full technical details about how you conducted the research, are they looking for a summary of results that will help them plan or make decisions; or are they about to review your research for a journal? In choosing how to write up and where to publish the research you've done, consider how you have conducted the research, the topic you've chosen, and the audience you seek. This paper will now proceed to discuss the components of a research report. Following from that is a discussion of some of the different types of publication in which research is published. Finally we look at some of the practicalities of writing, researching, and selecting the right mode of publication, the writing itself, and finally, authorship and the ethics of authorship.

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