Workshop ‘Designing Academic Papers’: Writing Successful Journal Articles

The event will take place on both days from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

📍 TalTech School of Business and Governance (Akadeemia tee 3) (room TBA)

This workshop will be conducted in English.

This workshop offers the hands-on tools to improve both your papers and your writing process. Most researchers learn academic writing by trial and error, dedicated training speeds up the learning process. This two-day workshop aims at acquiring the skills to design successful academic papers. Participants assess and improve their writing skills by analyzing their own paper in terms of focus of the article, connection with the literature, and structure. We discuss and provide training in identifying publishable parts of research projects, positioning the article, and developing an effective paper structure. Other topics include designing a compelling introduction, preparing the literature review, and writing the main sections (e.g., literature review, research design, data collection, data analysis, discussion and conclusion).
Case material: the participant’s own paper.

The ‘Designing Academic Papers’ workshop aims at doctoral researchers who intend to write a journal article based on completed research and who have available at least an early draft version of their paper (this does not have to be a complete paper yet) that they can bring to the workshop as case material. Participants are required to bring a laptop with them.

Additionally the individual preparation work should be done before the workshop with the individual academic paper which will be used during the workshop. In the both training days 2 light coffee&tea breaks will be provided by the organizers (at 10AM, at 3PM). The lunch at 12PM – is organized by each participant (the several cafeterias are in the SOC and other buildings).

Register yourself HERE. The registration is open until January 31, 2026.

Maximum number of participants is 14. The other registrants will be placed on a waiting list and will be informed as soon as a training spot becomes available.

Contacts:

With questions about the workshop, please turn to Mari-Klara Stein mari-klara.stein@taltech.ee
With administrative questions, please turn to Koidu Saia koidu.saia@taltech.ee

Estonian Doctoral School for Social Sciences.