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who did you submit your research paper to? basically, how would i go about doing something like this? any help would be greatly appreciated. keeping my fingers crossed for all of you (and me)who find out about ivies tomorrow. GOOD LUCK!

By Natalia (Natalia) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:16 pm: Edit

Do you mean published in a journal like "Science" or "Scientific American" or something like that? My friend had a paper she worked on published last summer (after 3 summer internships in our lab), but she was just an author on the paper... it was submitted by our lab head. I think that's how it's usually done - the lab submits it to one (maybe more, I'm not sure) journal, and then waits for them to review it. If it's passed, it's published. Oftentimes, they will send the paper back with problems they have with it. You then have to revise it and send it back, and the process of review starts again. At least, that's what I gathered from last summer's work. A project I worked on is being published at some point. I'm going to be on the paper (because I did some of the work), but not as a primary author. What kind of research did you do? Good luck with the Ivies tomorrow.. which ones are you interested in?

By Nyguy (Nyguy) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:36 pm: Edit

you can submit your own papers to a journal.. It usually takes a year to be published. If you are intelligent enough to write a worthy paper, you know which scientific journals are appropriate for your work. You can only submit your work to one journal at a time as well

By Shrn1 (Shrn1) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:46 pm: Edit

Thanks, guys. It's actually a research paper i did for American History last year, discussing jazz and its impact on racial barriers in the early and mid 20th century. I think I might talk to my teacher tomorrow about what journals to submit to, and if he thinks its even worthy of trying. as for ivies, im interested in pretty much whatever i can get into. if i had a choice, i would say yale, brown, or harvard. in a perfect world, i would have to choose between those three...

By Natalia (Natalia) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 08:08 pm: Edit

Good luck

By Rosarosaef (Rosarosaef) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 08:09 pm: Edit

before submitting your high school paper to historical society publications, get the opinion of your history teacher on the wisdom of doing that. i imagine even shelby foote blushes a bit when confronted with his juvenilia. you might, however, submit it to an existing school publication. or if no suitable publication exists, why not found the XYZ High School Historical Magazine? off hand, i'd say you have a better chance at brownie points that way.

By Shrn1 (Shrn1) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 08:17 pm: Edit

yeah, i'm going to have him read it first before i submit (dont want to embarass myself)

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 02:50 pm: Edit

There's actually a wonderful publication devoted to publishing historical research conducted by high schoolers. It's called the Concord Review. They have strict guidelines for submission and approval. It's a real feather in your cap to get published in this journal - especially if you plan to major in history or the social sciences in college.

Their web site is www.tcr.org

You can get a good idea by visiting the site of the quality of work they publish as they have many of their issues published online there.

As an aside, Bates College has a wonderful summer two-week history program.


Good Luck!
Carolyn

By Rondafaye (Rondafaye) on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 10:29 pm: Edit

My daughter just found out today that her paper is being published in the June Concord Review. She is really excited about it.