Scientific Writing Online Version

Justin Mullins and Mark Buchanan
November 16-19, 2021
9:00-13:00 each day
Online

The Online Scientific Writing Workshop teaches the skills to produce research papers of the highest quality for the world's top journals. The workshop takes place over 4 half-days. Participants will learn the writing techniques necessary to best construct and explain their ideas and the editing skills to refine and polish their work. A key focus is the structure of good scientific communication. We look at this at the level of sentences, paragraphs, abstracts and entire papers, using examples from a wide range of disciplines. The course also offers tips on grant proposal writing as well as on dealing with editors at journals. We believe that people learn by doing, so each session includes thought-provoking exercises to help participants practice the techniques we teach. Participants are also asked to complete an abstract writing exercise ahead of time. The workshop includes detailed one-to-one feedback on this work with an experienced instructor. This is also an opportunity to discuss any other questions or seek specific advice.

There is an exercise.

The trainers will send the exercise to participants after you register. In short, participants will prepare a short writing and send it to the trainers ahead of time. Details will be given by the trainers after registration.The trainers then prepare detailed feedback for each person, showing them how to apply the techniques they learn to their own work.

Schedule

Day I

09:00 Introduction

09:30 Diary of a paper

10:15 Science and the media

10:45 Break

11:00 Sentences I

12:30 Tractors

13:00 End of first day

Day II

09:00 Titles and abstracts

10:15 Break

10:30 Grant proposals

11:00 Paragraphs

13:00 End of second day

Day III

09:00 Sentences II

10:15 The process of writing

10:30 Break

10:45 Graphs and figures

11:15 References and covering letters

12:00 Group editing

13:00 End of third day

Day IV

09:00 Types of scientific papers

09:30 One-to-one consultations in parallel with writing exercise

10:30 Break

11:00 Consultations and writing exercise continued

12:30 Feedback, questions and concluding remarks

13:00 Workshop ends

Registration closed on October 17th, 2021.