{"id":71924,"date":"2024-03-04T02:46:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=71924"},"modified":"2024-03-04T02:46:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:46:45","slug":"key-words-contribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/key-words-contribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Key words \u2013 contribution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The dictionary definitions of contribution are:<\/p>\n

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  1. A gift or payment<\/li>\n
  2. The part played by a person or thing in bringing about a result or helping something to advance and<\/li>\n
  3. A piece of writing submitted for publication in a journal or book<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When scholars talk about contribution it might be 3. A contribution might be a piece we have submitted to an edited collection, a text book, an anthology of cases or an encyclopaedia.<\/p>\n

    But the most usual scholarly formulation of contribution is as a \u201ccontribution to knowledge\u201d.<\/p>\n

    Contribution to knowledge is an apparently simple idea, but in reality it\u2019s pretty slippery. So here\u2019s\u00a0few thoughts about how to make sense of it, just to start with.<\/p>\n

    A contribution to knowledge is more like dictionary definition 2. Your research and\/or writing helps to advance understandings about a topic.\u00a0\u00a0People know a little or a lot more about a topic because they\u2019ve engaged with your work, read what you\u2019ve written. And you\u2019ve been able to explain to readers that the work adds up to a contribution \u2013 it takes the field somewhere \u2013 through<\/p>\n