Instructor(s): Christopher Essert

This course is designed to help students develop an already-existing paper into something suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Admission will be by the permission of the instructor through an application described below. The course will proceed by working through the papers of each student in the course in an iterated fashion, thinking about strategies to strengthen the arguments and to better position the papers for publication. 

Application Process:
To apply to the course, students must submit to Professor Essert (chris.essert@utoronto.ca), via email, by the course submission deadline (July, 11, 2024), a copy of the paper that they want to develop into publishable form as well the name of the course in which it was written. The expectation is that the members of the class will be mostly third-year students who plan to work on a paper written in their second year of studies, but students who have written a paper in their first-year small group that they think may be suitable for further development may also apply. 

Evaluation
The final grade will be based mostly (80%) on the version of the paper produced at the end of the course, which is likely to be in the range of 10,000 words. That grade will be a function not only of the quality of the final paper but also on the development of the paper from the initial to the final version. Because the development of the papers through the course will involve reading others’ papers and commenting on them, the rest of the grade (20%) will be composed partly of in-class participation and partly on some interim written work, including some comments on others’ papers.
Academic year
2024 - 2025

At a Glance

First Term
Credits
3
Hours
2

Enrolment

Maximum
12

12 JD

Schedule

Th: 10:30 am - 12:20 pm