Presenters 

Jeffrey M. Osborn, Workshop Organizer, Division of Science, Truman State University, 100 E. Normal Street, Kirksville, MO 63501-4221.  Tele:  (660) 785-4017, Fax:  (660) 785-4045, E-mail:  josborn@truman.edu.

Elizabeth Paul, Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, P.O. Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718.  Tele:  (609) 771-2651, Fax:  (609) 637-5178, E-mail:  bethpaul@tcnj.edu.

Wayne Glowka, Department of English, Speech, and Journalism, Georgia College & State University, Campus Box 44, Milledgeville, GA 31061-0490.  Tele:  (912) 445-4222, Fax:  (912) 445-5961, E-mail:  wglowka@mail.gcsu.edu.

Attendance

The room was filled to capacity for this workshop; approximately 60 people attended.

Summary

This workshop focused on key issues related to publishing with undergraduates in peer-reviewed journals.  The workshop covered both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary issues, primarily from the perspectives of the sciences (Osborn), the social sciences (Paul), and the humanities (Glowka).  Some of the salient topics covered included the following: 

            • The pedagogical value of student publication (i.e., for the students),

            • The professional benefits of mentoring student projects that result in publication (i.e., for the faculty),

            • The institutional benefits of student publication,

            • Research (and publication) as a solitary vs. collaborative enterprise,

            • When student authorship is warranted,

            • Order of authorship,

            • Publishing the work of a single vs. multiple students,

            • Manuscript preparation and revision,

            • Journal selection, and

            • Editorial communication.