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What are the benefits to publishing in MURR?
Benefits to Publishing in MURR
Why should WVU students consider publishing in an undergraduate reseach journal like MURR?
- Publishing is one of the central methods researchers test their knowledge and disseminate their research. By publishing in MURR, students get acquainted with this process early in their academic careers and experience integration in a discipline-based research community.
- Publishing in an undergraduate journal is both parts challenging and rewarding. By publishing in an undergraduate journal, students experienced raised stakes. Writing in public requires meeting high standards with the potential for strengths and weaknesses to be put on display. Often through publishing, students pay greater attention to the writing process and seek to clarify their understanding of their research topic.
- Undergraduate journals (like undergraduate research in general) validates the notion that students are active participants in the learning process and are producers of knowledge.
- There is value in making student research inquiries public. Undergradaute journals are a vessel to demonstrate to the public what students at WVU can achieve, show authors' near-peers what they can achieve, and undergird the level of student engagement and scholarly rigor the university can achieve.
