Scientific Writing

Justin Mullins and Mark Buchanan
April 9 and 10, 2025
2-day workshop
9:00 - 17:00
AEI Seminar room A113 (Appelstraße 11a, 30167 Hannover) in Gebäude 3403

The 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 2 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 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 individual questions and challenges.

There is an exercise.

The trainers will send the exercise to participants after you register.

Topics

Day I

Introduction

Diary of a paper

Sentences I

Science and the media

Tractors

Titles and abstracts

Tractors

Paragraphs

Day II

Types of scientific paper

One-to-one consultations in parallel with writing exercise

Breaking the mould

Consultations (contd)

Graphs and figures

The process of writing

Sentences II

Machine writing –friend or foe?

References and acknowledgments

Group exercise

Concluding remarks

The registration will open soon
The maximum number of participants is 20.