Conception, design and evaluation of the Interactive tutorial: How to prepare your academic paper. A case study

How to prepare your academic paper is the title of the tool developed by the Laboratorio de Comunicación Interactiva (Interactive Communication Laboratory) of the DigiDoc Group and the Library/CRAI at Universidad Pompeu Fabra to facilitate the preparation of scientific student papers according to standardized quality guidelines. The tutorial, which is available at http://stpr.upf.edu/tutorial/, responds to a double need: allowing self-learning by students, and serving as a pedagogic resource for the Curso de Introducción a la Universidad (Introductory course to the University, CIU) the library staff is giving. This article presents the guidelines used to create the tool, its pedagogic and discursive principles as well as the evaluation of the results obtained when first used during the 2012-13 academic year.