From October 21st to November 11th, Professor Guo Xiaolong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) was invited to conduct a series of courses on “Academic Paper Writing in Management Studies” for the School of Management. Zhang Jianghua, Vice Dean of the School, presided over the opening ceremony and summarized the end of courses, and more than 50 faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students of the School took part in the series of courses.
Professor Guo combined his experience of writing and reviewing papers for many years and taught the writing method in four modules. The first module is the writing of title, abstract, and keywords in the field of management science; the second module is about the introduction and literature review; the third module is about the model construction, analysis and discussion; and the fourth module is about the conclusion and suggestions. After the students’ discussion and presentation, Professor Guo taught the methods of effectively dealing with review comments in the process of paper revision from the interpretation of review comments, response paradigm, and example analysis. Besides, three papers were selected as study materials for each course, and the students had targeted discussions on the papers. Vice Dean Zhang said that he hoped teachers and students could get a comprehensive improvement in paper writing, paper submission and literature reading.
The course provides a platform to learn and communicate and lays the foundation for the School to offer courses related to the enhancement of postgraduates’ research ability in the future.
Guo Xiaolong, Distinguished Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), graduated from the School of Management of the USTC with a PhD in 2014, and his dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 (selected in the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Series of Springer Theses). His research interests are logistics and supply chain management, and he has published more than 60 papers in the top management journals MSOM and POM, as well as authoritative journals such as JMIS, EJOR, and NRL. Relevant achievements have won the first prize of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the PRC and the first prize of Natural Sciences of the MOE, the Excellent Research Achievement Award of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the PRC, the Anhui Social Science Award, and the Anhui Outstanding Academic Paper on Natural Sciences. He has presided over the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Youth Science Fund Project, participated in two Major Programs of NSFC as a sub-project leader, and published a textbook, Academic Paper Writing in Management Science, in Higher Education Press.
