I know people who have presented a version of a paper that becomes a publication later. Present the less refined version, and then work with the faculty member to refine more until it is publishable. Then, publish.
I'm actually a bit confused. I've never encountered this idea that presenting data at a conference somehow prevents it from being publishable later. How are the people who didn't attend the conference supposed to learn about your work?
The data has already been presented once (albeit with a very rough analysis), so my concern with doing what teaganc described is that it might seem like I'm going overboard with milking one study if it forms the basis for two presentations and a publication.
Have you ever looked at your professors' CVs? Gathering data is the hard part, and then they publish several papers/present at several conferences on different aspects of the data/issue. At least, I've seen people spend their entire career publishing on YMCAs (weird).
But if you've already presented this and don't have a better/different presentation, then work on publishing. No biggie. There are tons of conference opportunities.
OP -- does your field do poster sessions? You might consider presenting your thesis work as a poster. That will also get you talking to people at the conference.
Seconded! You need to get everything you can while you can. ;)
I would expect that as people have said, you can get some different angles out of the same work so present at the conference and then refine it for the paper.
If I hadn't already presented it once I'd definitely do this. But you're right, it may be worth giving the conference submission a shot anyways. At the very least the review could be helpful when polishing the paper for journal submission.
I'm in management. I'm not sure what the protocol is, but I do know actually having original empirical data seems to be a fairly big deal, so maybe I could get away with it.
Gert Hofstede has been publishing and republishing the same data for decades now :) In more mundane terms, I often run across 2-3 publications or presentations of the same data when researching stuff. I say, go ahead and present the unrefined version at the conference and then refine it.
haha, that's a fair point. :) I guess I was just worried it might stand out more on a CV as sparse as mine, but given that I only have a BS that's probably forgivable.
If I *had* to choose, I'd take publication. It lasts longer.
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But if you've already presented this and don't have a better/different presentation, then work on publishing. No biggie. There are tons of conference opportunities.
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OP -- does your field do poster sessions? You might consider presenting your thesis work as a poster. That will also get you talking to people at the conference.
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I would expect that as people have said, you can get some different angles out of the same work so present at the conference and then refine it for the paper.
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In the humanities, we can parlay entire careers out of one study. The key: re-titling.
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