Besides the close connection, using publication as the primary objective has several advantages. First. it serves as a visible and objective criterion-for evaluating the effectiveness of the course. Second, it can be used as a basis of selecting students who apply for the course. But most importantly, it provides a solid justification for why logical thinking education should be incorporated in to academic writing education.
To begin with, academic publication is very different from other Kinds of publication For example ,news articles, novels, plays ,etc ,are also writings that are primarily aiming for publication. But they are significantly different from academic writings as far as publication is concerned .For publication, new articles are basically required to deliver a factual report about recent and noteworthy events that happened locally or globally. News articles are not basically required to convince the readers to accept what is reported in the articles .For example, in writing about the WMD investigation that eventually led to the Iraq invasion in 2003 ,a good news article only had to deliver a factual and unbiased report about what investigation claimed. regardless of whether the readers were convinced by those claims .Similarly, good novels and plays are basically required to provide entertainment and enjoyment to their readers. As long as the love story portrayed in a romance novel is attractive and entertaining ,it does not really matter whether or not the readers find the story convincing
Unlike news articles and romance novels ,the basic requirement for academic paper in publication is neither to entertain its readers nor to merely deliver an unopinionated report .A good academic paper is basically required to demonstrate a convincing power in publication.
By definition .academic research is fundamentally about doing something new. Because of the novels in order for research findings to be accepted by the readers or listeners, the process by which the findings were reached must be convincing. And in order for the paper to convincing -hence publishable, it must demonstrate a clear research conclusion and a logical argument for the conclusion This requirement for getting an academic paper published can be easily found in the submission guidelines for authors of almost any top class academic journal .For example, here is the guideline for how to get published in the science journal ,Nature
submissions should be accompanied by cover letter stating briefly why the conclusion is an important scientific advance authors are strongly encouraged to attempt two 100-word summaries one encapsulate the significance of the work for readers of nature and the other to explain the conclusions at an understandable level for the general public.