Advanced Scientific Writing
In-person workshop with Ruth Willmott, PhD
06.03.2024 – 08.03.2024
We are delighted to offer again this course – an IRTG favorite!
We highly recommend this two-and-a-half day workshop on Advanced Scientific Writing, by Ruth Willmott of BioScript. This course is appropriate both for doctoral researchers in their early project stages, as well as for those in more advanced stages.
From Wed-Fri, March 6-8, 2024 from 9:00 to 17:00 (Fri until 12:30)
Format: in person!
Location: t.b.a.
Maximum participants: 12
Sign up a.s.a.p. with Elizabeth while spots are still available irtg1064@bmc.med.lmu.de
BioScript workshop description:
Do you have data to publish, but keep putting off writing that paper because you don’t know where to begin? The Scientific Writing Workshop shows you how to organize, structure and write your research papers effectively and efficiently. How to get started and keep going as well as what goes where and in which tense will be the starting point of this workshop. We will also review key scientific sentence structures as well as strategies to keep your text concise and precise. Issues such as how to create flow and generate the correct level of emphasis will also be discussed. Together we will explore how to make scientific writing understandable and readable and begin the process of integrating these factors into your own scientific writing style. Finally, we will formulate a plan on how you can improve your scientific vocabulary and writing style for future writing tasks.
The Scientific Writing Workshop is ideal for non-native English-speaking early stage research scientists with little or no paper writing experience.
Workshop content
- Preparing for the writing process
- Structuring your research papers
- Using key scientific sentence structures
- Writing concise and precise sentences
- Creating flow and strong transition between ideas
- Achieving emphasis of your key points
- Improving your punctuation
- Using American versus British English
- Enhancing your editing skills
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Better organize, structure and write your research papers
- Write a more concise and precise flowing text
- Better emphasize key information and generate the right level of impact
- Begin to identify and correct writing weaknesses and
- typical language errors
- Implement strategies for future improvement of
- your scientific vocabulary and writing style