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We regularly conduct workshops and training sessions on academic writing at home and abroad.  Yesterday afternoon I did one in Kathmandu for staff at Social Science Baha and Green Tara Nepal.  There were the usual comments and queries about authorship, references, length of papers or sections of papers, how to target the ‘best’ journalfor my article, etc.  One interesting question I had not been asked before was: “How did you feel when you had your first paper published?”, followed by the question: “Who did you tell about it?”  I thought that was a very nice question, and also reminded me why we do these kind of workshops for those who haven’t had the pleasure yet of getting a paper in print.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

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