DBA 8116: Writing and Communicating Data
3 credits
Only open to DBA students
Building upon previous courses, this course is an introduction to the complex world of academic publishing and is designed to give students practical experience in getting their work published in peer-reviewed journals; moreover, it familiarizes students with other ways and modes of presenting their research via a rhetorical approach to audience, genre, purpose, and so on. In addition to explaining the academic publication process to students and sharing strategies for achieving success in the academic writing arena—including setting up a writing schedule, identifying appropriate journals for submission, clarifying arguments, making claims for significance, organizing material, etc.—it links such processes to how we might disseminate the same (or similar) information for practitioner and public audiences as well, ensuring that students’ research circulates beyond the figurative walls of the DBA program.