Timeline for What to do when online instructor not giving meaningful feedback on research project?
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 22:25 | comment | added | Village | I also find it possible that the instructor does not care, but see that as no guarantee of a passing grade. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 22:23 | comment | added | Village | The paper is as Nate describes, summarizing many other works. My only contribution is the manner in which I bring all of the various ideas together...I doubt it is publishable. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 15:35 | comment | added | user3209815 | @NateEldredge I agree with your point of view, the question is vaguely stated. I indeed assumed that the OP is pursuing a PhD. However, at least at my university, many doctorate graduate courses implicitly require that the results are published somewhere (often any international IEEE conference is sufficient). So when talking about a research paper in context of graduate courses, I somewhat naturally assume just that, a potentially publishable paper. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 15:20 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | That doesn't mean the paper is not good as coursework, just that evaluating it as such is not the purpose of academic peer review; submitting it for this purpose would likely just waste everyone's time. Moreover, who says the OP will soon have publishing as a requirement? Many people study for, e.g., master's degrees with no intention of proceeding further, and they would not need to publish. Indeed, online courses are more likely to be part of a master's program than a doctorate. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 15:18 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | I can't regard the second paragraph as useful advice. Papers written as coursework are generally not of publishable quality. "Research paper" in this context often refers to a work that collects and summarizes results from published sources without adding new results of its own. That's fine as a learning experience for a class, but it's not something you could publish. If you submit it to a journal, I wouldn't be surprised if the peer-review "feedback" was a quick rejection with a vague explanation like "no original results" or "not appropriate for this journal". | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 14:44 | history | answered | user3209815 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |