Scientific Paper Writing Workshop

Prerequisites

The Scientific Paper Seminar is a 2-day writing workshop for early-career scientists. It teaches the skills required for producing research papers of the highest quality for the world's top journals. The workshop is designed to give participants the confidence to begin publishing in the increasingly competitive world of science. The course instructors are Mark Buchanan and Justin Mullins, two highly experienced scientific writers/editors.

Because pre-course work is required, all bookings must be made by 9 January 2015. You will then be contacted with a request for a small piece of pre-course work. Cancellations cannot be accepted after 9 January 2015, so please make sure you are comiited to attend before you sign up.

PhD and postdoc researchers in the life sciences

Participants will be required to submit a piece of writing to the course organisers before the course. Participants will be contacted about this. Any participants who do not meet the deadline for submisison of work will not be allowed to attend the course, and the place will be given to another individual.

Number of sessions: 2

• How high-profile journals such as Nature and Science choose the papers they publish
• Types of scientific paper and their structures
• The structure of titles and abstracts
• How to express complex ideas in clear, emphatic sentences
• The structure of paragraphs
• Techniques for constructing arguments
• The secrets of editing
• Intensive exercises to demonstrate key points
• Group discussion
• One-to-one “writing clinic” with each participant
• The future of scientific communication

Workshop

2 days

One off