Writing Process in Natural Sciences: From Research to Publication ONLINE

Aims

The 8-week course conveys the knowhow of scientific writing & publishing and creates a basis for long-term development of participants‘ scientific writing skills. The main goal is to learn to effectively communicate research findings and publish successful research articles.

Content

1. General principles of (scientific) writing. The writing process.
2. Macrostructure of research articles.
3. Paragraph & sentence structure. Scientific language & style.
4. Revisions & peer feedback. Publication processes.

Methods

To enable the maximum possible transfer of learned skills, the trainer employs interactive and collaborative methods including
writing sessions, reflections, peer feedback, practical exercises, discussions in the whole
group and in pairs, and Q&A rounds. Furthermore, the bi-weekly sessions are complemented
with homework to practice and deepen the course contents.

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates of the Faculty of Science

About the Trainer

Martina Michalikova is on a mission to help scientists develop their writing competence.

As a writing scientist herself, she saw first-hand how writing skills can make or break a scientific career. She started to support her struggling colleagues and found a great satisfaction in their progress.

Thus, after finishing her doctoral thesis she obtained further qualification as a writing consultant and developed her own systematic approach specifically tailored to the needs of young researchers in natural & life science.

Workload

Total 30 h --> lessons 4 x 4 h (4x 3h live session & 4x 1h video input), preliminary work and follow-up work 14 h

Feature

This course is reserved for doctoral candidates of the Faculy of Science.

Each session will be complemented with 1 hour of video input.

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.