Dissertation to Journal Article: A Systematic Approach

Table 15

Dissertation to journal pro forma (from 2012 to 2013).

Details	Planning stages: one to fourteen
Name of member of staff
Subject area
Dissertation title
Authors
Supervisor	Week 1: stages 1, 2, 3, and 4
Masters’ student
2nd academic staff author
Target journal
Web site
Writing the draft
Introduction
Literature review
Methods	Week 2: stages 5, 6, 7, and 8
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
References
First draft	Week 3: stage 9
Editing	Week 4: stage 10
Submission of final draft to journal	Week 5: stages 11, 12
Review from journal	Weeks 6–14: stage 13
Responding to journal review	Weeks 15–22: stage 14
Acceptance and publication	Weeks 23–26: stage 15