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Emerging Scholars’ Writing for Publication

2024· book-chapter· en· W4415583183 on OpenAlexaff
Candace Schlein, James Corcoran

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMentorshipGraduate studentsFocus (optics)Medical writingGrant writingLiteracyDoctoral studiesCareer development

Abstract

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In a competitive global market of knowledge production, where research products such as peer-reviewed articles published in indexed journals are the primary metric by which emerging scholars are rated, research, often writing, has taken on greater importance during graduate studies. However, there are rarely official courses aimed at honing graduate students’ research writing skills. In this chapter, we outline our efforts as journal editors of a mentorship journal, pointing to the potential and limitations of such journals for promoting effective research writing support for emerging scholars. Although the focus of this literacy support is not housed within a course, such experiences are, we argue, a critical component for emerging scholars’ completion of graduate degrees as well as for their career trajectories. Drawing on our experiences as former editors of The Journal, we offer a polyvocal response to the challenge of the active and engaging mentoring of graduate students’ scholarly writing toward publication.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.038
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.980
Threshold uncertainty score0.064

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.038
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.007
Scholarly communication0.0200.010
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0020.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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