Master Class „How to improve your paper"
Conducted by Michiel S de Vries
For the first time, and based on participants‘ strong expression of interest, NISPAcee is offering a workshop on how to improve one's paper, especially its introduction and conclusions. When readers don't like the introduction of your paper they will not continue reading. Sometimes readers start at the conclusions. If they don't like them they neither continue reading the paper. The quality of introduction and conclusions of your paper is therefore crucial.
This master class is designed for young scholars from the NISPA regions who have already written a paper and who want to improve on it. The Master Class is scheduled in such a way as to allow participants to work on their papers for the conference themselves just before the conference. The master class will take place in the conference hotel before the official opening. The class is sponsored by LGI and free of charge for participants.
Based on the applications 14 participants have been accepted for the Master Class.
The full papers accepted for the presentation at the conference should have been uploaded to the online record of the participant by April 10th, 2011
Master Class Schedule:
Venue: Conference Hotel-Melia Grand Hermitage
1st Day - MAY 18th - WEDNESDAY
Wednesday
, 18 May, 09.00-10.30 h
- will
feature a general presentation by the workshop leader on what constitutes a
good paper, as well as discussion how to improve the introduction section of one’s
own paper. The participants will get a text
by email before May 1st , which they have to have read before
the first meeting.
Meeting room: ORPHEUS
Wednesday
, 18 May, 10.30-15.00 h
Participants
will after the first meeting with the workshop leader be expected to work on their
own introduction and mail the improved texts to the workshop leader before
15.00 h (m.devries@fm.ru.nl and m.honingh@fm.ru.nl).
Wednesday,
18 May, 15.30 – 18.00 h
- will
consist of individual meetings with the workshop leaders going through the
improved texts on the introduction, one by one, discussing the changes made and
the changes still necessary. These are 20 minutes sessions each. Given the
number of applicants, these sessions will be conducted by either prof. dr.
Michiel S de Vries, or by dr. Marlies Honingh.
Meeting room 1: ORPHEUS
Meeting room 2: REZOS
Wednesday
18 May. 19.30-20.30 h
A
general presentation about the structure of conclusions of papers as well as a
discussion on how this would apply to the applicants’ papers
Meeting room: ORPHEUS
Wednesday 18 May. 20.30 until next morning:
Participants will be expected to work on
their conclusions section and work further on their improved introduction
section and mail the final texts to the workshop leaders before 08.00 h May
19th.
2nd Day - MAY 19th - THURSDAY
Thursday,
May 19, 09.00-11.30 h will
be used for individual meetings between applicants and workshop leaders going
through the improved texts on the introduction and of the conclusions Given the
number of applicants, these sessions are divided among prof. dr. Michiel S de
Vries, or by dr. Marlies Honingh.
Meeting room 1: ORPHEUS
Meeting room 2: REZOS
Thursday,
May 19, 11.30-13.00 h will
be used to discuss the improved manuscripts in the group as a whole as well as
an evaluation of the course.
Meeting room: ORPHEUS
The Master Class will be conducted by Professor Dr. Michiel de Vries (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) He is also the chair of working group IV on Public Administration Reform and member of the editorial board of numerous journals in Public Administration and Dr. Marlies Honingh, Assistant Professor (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands).
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