1. TELLSI 12 Conference, 2015
University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
Getting your paper published in peer-reviewed journals
Arman Abednia
arman.abednia@gmail.com, aabednia@our.ecu.edu.au
PhD in TESOL from Allameh Tabataba’i University
PhD candidate in Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia
There is increasing demand in Iran (and internationally) for graduate students to publish high
quality research arising from their theses, and publishing papers in refereed journals has become
a major criterion against which Iranian academics’ knowledge of their area of expertise and
research skills are gauged. There are courses of academic writing offered in graduate programs
of TEFL at some universities which often focus on general skills related to academic writing.
However, many of these courses are not specifically geared to preparing students to publish
papers in peer-reviewed journals. To help bridge this gap, this workshop is intended to help
participants improve their ability to:
 Identify areas worth publishing in their theses
 Produce high quality publications from their research
 Identify criteria against which the quality and publishability of manuscripts are
determined
 Choose a target journal
 Handle reviewers’ comments (incorporate or rebut them) and resubmit the manuscript
This workshop will involve hands-on tasks developed based on
 some de-identified papers the presenter has reviewed for journals such as Teaching and
Teacher Education, System, and the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
 his own and other reviewers’ feedback on them and the comments he has received on his
own papers
 the materials he has been provided by the abovementioned journals to help him with
reviewing manuscripts
At the end of the workshop, the participants will be provided resources, including manuals,
journal editors’ blog posts, publication guides, and papers about publication, for further self-
development.