Description:
This workshop gives you an overview about the requirements and rules for writing scientific articles. The following points will be covered in this 2-days workshop:
- Introduction: why publish, publishing in English, starting early
- Planning and execution, structure, overall style of language, proforma practical
- The need for structure, simplification and clarity
- Structure: of sentences, between sentences, whole text, sections, subsections, modules
- Simplification: of modifiers, suspensions, active voice and active verbs
- Short sentences and practical exercises on editing sentences
- The Discussion; purpose, content, tense, structure, modular construction
- The Methods; purpose, content, tense, structure
- The Results; purpose, content, tense, structure
- The Introduction; purpose, content, tense, structure
- The Title, Abstract, Key Words, Literature list, Acknowledgements etc.
- Title and Abstract practical exercises
Trainer
Andrew Davis, PhD works at the Institute of Zoology, University of Göttingen. With a PhD in Zoology from the University College Cardiff, Wales, UK, he specializes in biology, ecology and environment. He has extensive experience in teaching post-graduate students in scientific writing & publishing, manu-script preparation, experimental design & statistics.
Note: Registration of GSLS doctoral researchers has priority to non-GSLS participants. Non-GSLS participants pay a service and workshop fee of EUR 50 by bank transfer.