Planning Your Journal Article

Monday 1st June 2026, 10am - 1pm, online
person writing in a notebook

Are you struggling to turn your research or thesis into journal articles? Maybe you have lots of ideas, but it’s hard converting them into a structured piece of writing. Alternatively, you may want to develop a more streamlined process for putting your journal articles together.

In this interactive and supportive session, you’ll discover essential strategies for planning your articles. We’ll identify your goals for writing the article and follow a process that will support you to navigate your planning from initial conception of ideas to identifying a target journal and drafting a plan for the article structure. We’ll also tackle challenges to planning.

By the end of the session, you’ll have a strategy you can apply to developing current and future journal articles. 

Here’s what will be covered: 

  • Assessing and selecting your article ideas.
    Choosing a target journal.
  • Using planning techniques to break down your article into more manageable tasks.
  • Structuring your article
  • Creating a first draft.