Presenter: Nick Berente

Not all articles take the same amount of time
Random things/ outside of the dissertation can be a good part of tenure package
NASA time logging system for researchers/ scientists. They fill in the time they have allocated rather than actual time spent—they act as mediators- Foucault’s dressage: demonstrative responses.
Although he didn’t use the concept as he originally planned, he kept thinking about it and seeing it in other contexts. Used it for a conference paper with a friend.
The data was excerpted, not a large focus of the paper, which mostly dealt with the dressage concept.
Most important part of a journal resubmit is to show that you address every comment. Give them a table: comment, where it was addressed (page, paragraph), argue with comments that really disagree with the foundation of your paper. If reviewers don’t agree with each other, its much more difficult.
Then brought in more of the data for more final versions.
Finding interesting phenomena to which you can apply the theory in a seminar as a good place for ideas.
Read a book a day? Even if only table of contents, introduction, conclusions, and a chapter or two
4 paragraph introduction and lay out of key ideas
Formula:
1 hook, motivation, need
2 gap or opportunity in research literature
3 process, context, why of investigation
4 conclusion, findings, framework justification
5 outline paper: first…, second…, then…, conclude with…
introduction and conclusion writing should come before data collection

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Notes by Ayse:

Collaboration does not necessarily require spending huge amounts of time in blocks to work on an idea or paper. Ideas can be obtained from random observations, reading a book/newspaper/article, class discussions, or simply from areas of interest (among other places/contexts). If you and a friend (or friends) have an idea in which you are interested, just write down a paragraph or so about it and send it back and forth revising and expanding each time. When you start out writing about it the first time it doesn't have to be perfect, and the idea does not need to be solidified. However, it is good to have a few sentences addressing each of the following:

(1) motivation; you need a "hook"
(2) situate in research - identify gap or opportunity from existing literature
(3) how will you investigate? Process, context, and why?
(4) conclusion, findings, framework justification
(5) outline your paper: first…, second…, then…, and we conclude with…

Once you have something more or less solid you can try it first at a conference; then use the feedback to revise/update and send it to a journal. When you receive reviews for a journal submission, make sure to address the concerns/comments of each reviewer. If the reviewers agree on things more or less that's a good sign.

Coming out with an actual paper does take time (months or years) when actual work on it is sporadic. However, each time you work on the paper it's only a few hours, so on the total you're spending much less time on that specific project than you may think. You're still getting extra publications and that's good for the tenure package.

The same approach can be used to follow-up on an idea of interest individually (instead of collaborating with someone). However, it's usually more fun to work with someone, division of labor makes things easier on the individual as schedules get busy, and each collaborator can bring in a different point of view. Also, in academia collaboration is usually quite important and it's good to get the experience.

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Notes by Xingxing:

To address reviewers and their concerns:
Address every single concern of each reviewer. Start with some sentence like "All of your comments are wonderful", then list each concern with how you addressed it in the updated version (plus page number) - A simple table may work.

Distribute the labor of writing:
For example, one of Nick's paper took him 100 hours yet in three years.

Structure of literature review:
Note his early literature review addressed the topic from different perspectives, while the current version is shorter but with a more powerful structure, which include a hook, a specific hook - gap, how the gap will be addressed, etc.

Difference between a researcher and a scholar:
Scholars question their methodology a lot.
In order to become a scholar, one advice Nick provided is to read a book per day: read the table of contents, introduction and conclusion, and scan the other parts.

Formula/structure of introduction:
(Morgan and Ayse have already provided it. I found this very helpful.)
Exercise: Find a partner, start from some random ideas and following the above structure to build a study (early draft) in 15 minutes.