2009 ASAS Western Section Meeting
Writing a Scientific Paper for Publication Workshop
One Day Workshop for Western Section ASAS Members
Presenters: Michael Galyean and Gregory Lewis
Description: Communicating science is as important to the scientific process as designing and conducting the experiment itself. This workshop will help students take complete sets of data from the data presentation stage to a fully formed paper. The workshop will focus on essential techniques for writing a scientific paper. The basic structure for the paper will be modeled after the Journal of Animal Science. The two instructors will divide the papers and work with students in both a seminar and one on one environment to begin taking a dataset to a full paper. The size of the workshop will be limited to 12 students because, in addition to workshop, students whose papers are based on actual datasets will be assigned one of the two instructors as a mentor for continued help throughout 2009 with the paper.
Time: The ASAS Western Section writing workshop will be offered at the ASAS Western Section Meeting at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins. The workshop will be Wednesday, June 17 from 1:00 pm to 5 pm, and Thursday, June 18 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Costs to students: In order to ensure attendance once accepted into the workshop, there will be a $50.00 charge to attend the workshop. The students (or their major professor) will receive a $100.00 discount on JAS page charges if students submit a paper based on the data used in the workshop to JAS within 1 year of the workshop and the paper is accepted.
Requirements for Students:
1. Bring a completed data set in table or figure format to the meeting.
2. Be an ASAS Western Section Member
3. Be either a graduate student or post doc. Depending on success and availability, space may open for young faculty members
4. “Do homework” as discussed with instructors and follow up with instructors to complete a publishable paper.Goal: For students to have a quality paper ready for submission to JAS within 12 months.
Disclaimer: Participation in this workshop does not guarantee acceptance or publication of the papers produced in the workshop or any future papers. This workshop is for educational purposes only and is not a paper writing service.