How to Compile Scientific Papers. Spot your Weaknesses and Improve your Style

Friday, 01.02.2019 | 9:00am - 4:00pm
Friday, 08.02.2019 | 9:00am - 4:00pm

Scientific writing requires clear structuring, specific grammatical, and sound stylistic knowledge. English scientific writing of any kind needs to consider specific cultural aspects as well.

Participants asked to submit 2 to 4 pages of a paper or comparable writing in English four weeks prior to the workshop. (Deadline: 2^nd January 2019 / Send to ). ). Please note: this is required for being admitted to the workshop! Students who have never written anything in English are welcome to participate as well. They are asked to notify the instructor beforehand though.

An error analysis by the coach will help discovering individual mistakes, which will then be improved by the participants in interactive group work sessions. Based on participants’ papers, issues such as face saving concepts, cutting and combing techniques, avoiding redundancies, SPO, tenses, comma rules, active/ passive voice will be scrutinized (initial session). Supported by the coach, participants will moreover advance different sections of their papers such as the abstract, introduction and conclusion (subsequent session)

Participants are asked to bring along their laptops.
 

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