Scientific Writing for Advanced Students
Scientific Writing for Advanced Students
- Beginn: 01.02.2021
- Ende: 05.02.2021
- Vortragende(r): Dr. Dina Dechmann + Dr. Kami Safi
- Ort: online
- Gastgeber: IMPRS for Organismal Biology
- Kontakt: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
Due to the
continuous pandemic this workshop will take place as an online course for the
first time. We will spend a couple of very
intensive days together albeit virtually, where we will
use your own paper in progress, interspersed with other exercises, such as
writing an abstract for a Nature paper, and lots of discussion to help you
detect your own weaknesses and work on them in a peer review approach. Together
we will identify what makes a paper good and how to structure it properly. We
will think about the differences between scientific language compared to other
forms of writing (with a mind on mistakes non-native speakers commonly make),
as well as many important details such as citing literature, picking the right
journal, cover letters and dealing with reviewers etc. Our aim is to have a
solid draft of your paper by the end of the course meaning we write a section a
day, so the more mature your draft is when you bring it to the course the
better a foundation we have to work on.
Requirements: This is an advanced course, we expect you to have taken a basic writing course before. Good English language skills are a requirement. We will NOT help you analyze your data. Please bring a fully analyzed dataset including what you think are going to be your main figures and tables (no more than 3 each). Please send us an outline (not a draft) of your paper, with a brief summary for each of the major sections introduction, methods, results and discussion in bullet points latest two weeks before the course.
We’ll be sending more information and reading material more shortly before the course.
Find more about us here: https://www.ab.mpg.de/dechmann and https://www.ab.mpg.de/people/98254