Student Writing Weekends: A Model for Encouraging Undergraduate Student Publication

摘要

Meyer (2012) succinctly articulates the importance of publishing research—for advancingknowledge, which benefits the academic and those in her field. Moreover, Meyer argues that asacademics, through our research and dissemination, we also have a responsibility to contributeto the social good. I fervently support this idea—as do others (e.g., Parija and Kate, 2017), and Iwould add that as researchers and supervisors, we have the added responsibility to help our studentsachieve the same goal. Yet, for most students, graduation and getting a job are the goals of tertiarystudy. Many undergraduate students do not think about publishing (Pittam et al., 2009), and maylack opportunities for publication (Weiner and Watkinson, 2014), as well as the skills, confidenceand motivation to publish (Aitchison and Lee, 2006; Kamler, 2008; Maher et al., 2008).