Scientific writing methodology seminar: Outlook
Piotr Staszkiewicz
Niezbędnik registration link: https://n.e-sgh.pl/course/bGRHXK
Formal Disclosure
To ensure a rigorous and ethical academic discussion, we will be critically analyzing several academic papers during this workshop Some of these papers are authored or co-authored by myself.
It is important to note that any critical commentary on these papers will be focused on stimulating critical thinking and will be limited to the specific sections that represent my individual contributions.
Critical timing and flow
Condition for passing
LSLR - up to 8k words 70% points work in pairs (max 70 points)
Test on Sandersons glossary 30% points (max 1 attempts on-line through Niezbednik/Assigments 20-31 November 2024) (max 30 points)
During seminar you might earn the activity points (current balance available in Niezbednik)
Best review completion winner - 50 points
Minimum threshold to pass (all points) 50 points
Details on Simplified Literature Review
Deadline: 1 December 2024, 11 am, pdf of the final discussion paper including authors details and front page, thought the Niezbednik, (mail thought the Niezbedni) do tutor
The submission after the deadline, will suffer from 10% of points deduction.
Each student separately including the contribution statement based on CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy) and scope of the use of the AI tools in front page of the paper: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/credit.html Unless opposite stated in CRediT it will assumed equal workload of authors in the paper.
Authors who failed to collect 50 points, might resubmit the revised version of the paper within 30 days (not later than 1 of January 2025) from the original submission with a cover letter explaining the changes made to the paper and with detailed response to the original review comments from workshop (it is advice to provide a clean and track changes copy of the paper). The submission after the deadline will be not taken into account.
Front page minimum disclosure:
- Authors affiliation, contact e-mail, year, specialization
- Authors keywords
- Open access type: “This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial & non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors.”
- Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process: “During the preparation of this work, the author(s) used [NAME TOOL/SERVICE] in order to [EXTENT/REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the publication.” Follow Journal of Financial Reporting requirements https://aaahq.org/Research/Journals/Journal-of-Financial-Reporting/Guide-for-Authors Lack of the use of the AI should be disclosed as well “Authors did not use any type AI for research or paper”
- CRediT statement
Learning methodology
- English: Your Memory, a User’s Guide, Alan D. Baddeley, Macmillan, 0020753101
- Polish speaking: Część I. Techniki oraz narzędzia pracy umysłowej i egzaminacyjnej Audyt. Zbiór zadań do rewizji finansowej, 978-83-01-21757-0, PWN
Instalation
Citation manager:
- Zetoro https://www.zotero.org/
- Mendeley
- Citavi
- Others (EndNote)
RStudio computing cloud access (q methods)
AI tools
- GTP https://chatgpt.com/
- Geminin https://gemini.google.com/app
- NotebookLM https://notebooklm.google.com/?original_referer=https:%2F%2Fblog.google%23&pli=1
- Prompt engneering https://www.promptingguide.ai/
- Grammarly www.grammarly.com
SGH libarary
- WOS access WPN
- Scopus database
Internet resourses
- Google scholar
- Research gate
Literature
Research Methods for Business Students Mark N.K. Saunders, Philip Lewis and Adrian Thornhill
Lecture 1 (Introduction)
Role of ranking (Sicence Quality control, Scopus, WoS and Scholar Google)
- Polish list https://www.gov.pl/web/nauka/ujednolicony-wykaz-czasopism-naukowych
- Austrialian List
- UK list
- Simago https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php
- Predatory journals and conferences
Types of the research papers
Compare all types of the research papers to the business professional report (expertise)
Typical paper structure
j.jclepro.2023.137186
EX 0.1
CV in pairs - identify most difficult (challenging) writing exercise)
EX 1.1
Items: Data, Contribution, Discussion, Introduction, Conclusion, Appendix A, Open acess data statements, Authors contribution, JEL, Motivation, Research Question, Affiliations, Limitation, Harvard, Abstract, Methodology, Robustness testing, References, Literature, Research gap, Hypothesis development, Theoretical framework, Conceptual framework, Results, Descriptive statistics, Authors, Multivariate statistics, Novelty, Social Impact, Importance, Bias, DOI, Theory, Aim/Goal, Key result, Paper structure, Acknowledgements, CRediT, _AI application disclosure__ Policy recommendation, Supplementary data, Code arability, Repeatability, Keywords, heading line, APA, Financing, Further research
Identify in the following paper:
Staszkiewicz, P., Horobiowski, J., Szelągowska, A. and Strzelecka, A.M. (2024), “Artificial intelligence legal personality and accountability: auditors’ accounts of capabilities and challenges for instrument boundary”, Meditari Accountancy Research, Vol. 32 No. 7, pp. 120-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-10-2023-2204
EX 1.2
Order the elements of the 1.1 into the sequence of the paper flow
EX 1.3
Write down the time table how to make the obligatory task feasible, divide the roles and allocate the allocation of the tasks. Work in pair: https://rpubs.com/staszkiewicz/Obligatory2024
Make a list of complementary skills of your sparing partner (up to 10 keywords)
EX 1.4
Write down the list of all participant make a best matching search. Discuss the proposal for cooperation.
EX 1.5
Upload the papers to the Zetoro Upload the papers to WorkbookLM
EX 1.6
Using scholar goole:
- Find all papers of Chomiak
- Change the set up of the viewer to import the citation into Zetoro
- Browse all papers on AI in journal AOS
- Select the “Covid paper” and drill the citation on it
- Use plug in to build up the database
- Search for the funding organization
- Search the best journals in accounting and auditing domain
Lecture 2 (intorduction, methodology, results and discussion section)
Idea of the Introduction
Ex 2.1
List building block of the introduction List elements that should be removed from the introduction State the type of the language
EX 2.2
In group of four define the following: -rigour -plain English -author voice
Ex 2.3
Two teams, exchange your introduction, gives each other advise how to improve it base on the hook and Introduction principles.
Ex 2.4
In pair discuss the good feedback characteristics, rank them and order them
Ex 2.5
Compare your Introduction to: Widmann, M., Follert, F. & Wolz, M. What is it going to cost? Empirical evidence from a systematic literature review of audit fee determinants. Manag Rev Q 71, 455–489 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-020-00190-w
List changes you are going to implement: - Hook, RQ - How about contribution?
How do the authors vary from the “standard way” of presentation
Ex. 2.6
Create an Rpubs and publish on web
Homework
- Try to write up the first draft of your paper having all the items in place
Lecture 3 (Writning an SLR)
EX 3.1. Giving a review
Make a review on the 10.1108/MEDAR-10-2023-2204
EX 3.2 Discussion on the review Consider the style and methods of the real journal review
EX 3.3. Difference between the review and feedback conference or workshop
Homework
For the next session writ the abstract and Introduction of your paper max 1000 words Install describe software or register before next meeting.
Homework
- Revise your first draft, to the discussion draft
- Prepare five slide presentation of your paper for the paper development workshop
Lecture 4 (Paper development workshop)
- Five minutes presentation of the contribution plus the introduction to the paper by each team (max 5 slides per team allowed)
- All other team, must present the on-line development review and past them on the meeting chat and on the Teams chat.
- The presented team announce most valuable for the feedback
- From 3 best teams that gave feedback the Supervisor will select one to be straight passed.
Homework
- Final version of the pdf paper due on 1 of December 2024 via Niezbednik/Assigments - pdf
Lecture 5 (business versus academic writing)
Recap: expertise vrs paper vrs book vrs monograph
Difference auditor vrs audit researcher
Note it was just an intro, one example of the methodological review paper
Competition info
- Announcement of the “best review competition” - 50 points
EX 5.1 Advance methods CRR for the selection bias and review
EX 5.1 your futher CV
EX 5.2. your potential cariera development track (for and against)
EX 5.3. success academia vrs success business - swingers strategy
Ranking
Best discussion paper announcements (top three possible development on request)