How to get your work published

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• Personal Author:
  Davis T ; Hirst, Deborah V. L.
• Description:
  You have just returned home from a 30-day deployment setting up a field hospital for the Ebola response in Liberia. You designed a new innovative wastewater treatment system to serve a remote Alaskan village. You completed an engineering control survey at an indium-tin oxide plant to reduce worker exposure to indium. All of these accomplishments (along with your normal daily job duties) are what the USPHS mission is about. We protect, promote, and advance the safety and health of the Nation. Why would we not want our accomplishments or our daily job duties published for other engineers or categories to read and learn about? Engineers have cool jobs and we do cool things. As members of the Public Health Engineering Practice Subcommittee, we constantly hear other engineers say that they do not know what to write about or they do not have the interesting variety of projects that engineers in other agencies may encounter. If you are an engineer, then you do have something to write about and you can get your work published in peer and non-peer reviewed journals. For the next two newsletters, we will give you some pointers to help you with writing and we will also guide you to specific journals that may be suitable in your area of expertise. There are many reasons to get your work published. For one, authorship of publications is part of the Progression of Leadership Potential benchmark (Performance Precept). Sharing your published article with the public and/or peers at professional associations and conferences boosts an officer's value under the Presentations and Outreach benchmark (Officership Precept). Publishing can also help your career through networking opportunities created by your paper. Having an article published is the primary way that you can communicate the work that you are doing to others in the same field and is a record of your accomplishments. Your work, experience, insight, and/or research are important and can be used by the public, policy makers, industry, and your peers only if it is available and they are aware of its existence. Your publication adds to the body of knowledge. The exposure or attention that your article receives by publication can lead to funding resources for your work. Publishing improves your skills and expands your knowledge base. Practicing writing in a specific, structured, focused, and precise language improves one's writing skills. Working through your material and data properly, addressing comments and edits, identifying the main points or findings and reviewing the painstakingly small details of your article are valuable experiences. The peer review process of your article often provides you with additional insight into your own work. Finally, through identifying appropriate publishers for your work, you will learn about different publications, writing styles, editorial processes, channels and rankings. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Engineering Health Promotion Occupational Health Public Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Communication Systems Health Communications Professional Workers Public Health Safety Research Technology Transfer Work Experience Work Performance Workplace Studies
• Publisher:
  United States Public Health Service Engineer Professional Advisory Committee (USPHS/EPAC)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048352
• Citation:
  Machinatores Vitae 2016 Spring; :4-6
• Editor(s):
  EPAC Newsletter Team
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Machinatores Vitae
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203120/cdc_203120_DS1.pdf
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