Anmeldung: Scientific Writing – Manuscripts

Credit Points: 1

This workshop is designed to give participants an overview on the process of producing a scientific publication, including intensive exercises which are based on the own results of the participants. To assure this, participants will be asked to prepare a figure and figure legend and a short text describing the figure in preparation to the workshop. The workshop includes a theoretical introduction into the structure of scientific publications and principles of writing readable texts in English, which is enhanced and consolidated by the personal writing experience in exercises and by individual feedback. In addition, strategies for paper writing will be introduced and practiced. This highly interactive approach ensures a lasting enhancement of the writing skills of the participants.

Lernziele

• planning and structuring the writing process
• presenting results and designing figures
• defining messages and key statements
• general writing techniques and readable texts
• principles of publication layout