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A quick question.
I wrote an essay thesis for my Bachelor's and now I'm attending another school for my Masters.
I want to submit my essay thesis to a journal; do I use the school I'm currently attending or the school I wrote the paper at for the "institution" field. I would say the former, right?
I had that happen before, and I put my current institution with a note at the end giving credit to my former institution. (That was on the advice of my advisor from former institution.) You really should ask your thesis advisor (whom you should also include as a co-author)
Include your current institution for your institution field.
Meanwhile, if you have co-authors, your co-authors should be from your previous institution. Your current major advisor was not part of the work on that thesis.
I was definitely going to include my essay evaluator from my old school in the acknowledgements.
He was the evaluator for a Directed Studies course I took at the end of my undergrad career.
He copyedited some parts of the final draft and suggested a few revisions which I have since expanded on.
Otherwise I thought up the topic myself, wrote the entire essay from scratch as well as handing in progress reports and a few essay drafts throughout the semester. Would I need to include my evaluator as a co-author or would acknowledgments be sufficient?
A quick question.
I wrote an essay thesis for my Bachelor's and now I'm attending another school for my Masters.
I want to submit my essay thesis to a journal; do I use the school I'm currently attending or the school I wrote the paper at for the "institution" field. I would say the former, right?
An undergrad submitting a journal article is cute; even if it is accepted it won't be taken too seriously by "peers". So what do you do?
The research was conducted while you were an undergrad, and that should be noted in the paper. However, you are currently a grad student, and as such, you need to list your current school. Not that it would give credit to your current institution/department- anyone who reads the article will come across the part where you mention your undergrad. No, the whole point of indicating your grad school is to lend credence to your authority over the paper.
I was definitely going to include my essay evaluator from my old school in the acknowledgements.
He was the evaluator for a Directed Studies course I took at the end of my undergrad career.
He copyedited some parts of the final draft and suggested a few revisions which I have since expanded on.
Otherwise I thought up the topic myself, wrote the entire essay from scratch as well as handing in progress reports and a few essay drafts throughout the semester. Would I need to include my evaluator as a co-author or would acknowledgments be sufficient?
Editing and revisions is easily enough to be a co-author. Contact them and inform them you want to publish the article. They can probably help walk you through the process. Each field has its own processes and you will be better off with help; and they will further earn their co-authorship.
(Some fields, like History, do not allow co-authorships though.)
I was definitely going to include my essay evaluator from my old school in the acknowledgements.
He was the evaluator for a Directed Studies course I took at the end of my undergrad career.
He copyedited some parts of the final draft and suggested a few revisions which I have since expanded on.
Otherwise I thought up the topic myself, wrote the entire essay from scratch as well as handing in progress reports and a few essay drafts throughout the semester. Would I need to include my evaluator as a co-author or would acknowledgments be sufficient?
You absolutely need to include him as a coauthor. You should be listed as first author, since the topic was your concept and you did the bulk of the writing. But he advised you through the process, and on top of that helped with the final draft. Believe me, you don't want to develop the reputation of being "that student" who doesn't share credit.
By the way - to clarify my earlier post, I meant that you should include the advisor for the paper you are submitting, not your current one.
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