I'm working on a research paper, I'm pursuing a coursework masters and I am not required to write a research paper, but one of my professors liked a paper I wro

I'm working on a research paper, I'm pursuing a coursework masters and I am not required to write a research paper, but one of my professors liked a paper I wrote in his class enough that he wants to go through the process of publishing it to a journal. I think the most important thing is to get help from someone who has done it before. If I were you I would find research papers that are in the same topic as the one you are interested in and email the authors (most of them put their emails on the papers). Tell them you are interested in submitting a research paper to a journal in their field and that you'd like their help. You would basically write the paper on your own, have them review it and they would propose a journal or conference to submit it to. What they would get out of it would be an easy coauthor credit, which would build their standing in academia.