Soft skills: Behind the journal

In this workshop, which is hybrid, Dagmar Divjak will give you a look behind the scenes of Cognitive Linguistics, one of the leading journals in linguistics. She will talk us through all steps of the submission and post-submission process, highlighting what editors look for at each stage. Dagmar will also look more closely at reviews and discusses ways in which to deal with reviewer comments, which can be insightful and helpful but also misguided and conflicting. In the last part there will be a Q&A session in which Dagmar answers question about how respond to reviews and advise on how to strike a balance and learn to improve you work, from even the most critical review.

Where? This is a partially hybrid event that will take place both online on Zoom and at the University of Tartu. You will get the zoom link after registration.

Schedule: 13:00-14:30 NL - Webinar about behind the scenes of an academic journal (1 hour), followed by a Q&A session (30 minutes) .

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About the instructor

Dagmar Divjak is Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Linguistics. Dagmar is Professor of Cognitive Linguistics and
Language Cognition at the University of Birmingham and part of the Out Of Our Minds team.

Learn more about her work here.

About MEDAL

This is a workshop organised by Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics (MEDAL) is an international consortium initiated by the University of Tartu in Estonia, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University in the Netherlands and the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Financed by the EU Horizon Europe programme (101079429) and UK Research and Innovation organisation (101079429). MEDAL’s mission is to build expertise in data-driven linguistics methodology among early-career researchers. Read more about MEDAL here.