Seminar: "How to Write a Scientific Paper"

Scientific writing can be daunting when starting one’s career, or if one must publish in a second language.  While this seminar is necessarily focused on writing a scientific paper in English, the principles covered are probably applicable to scientific writing in any language.  However, this seminar is not about English grammar.  Rather, it is concerned with principles and procedures that will enable researchers to efficiently assemble a mass of data into a well composed scientific narrative.  Even experienced writers and native English speakers will acquire useful suggestions.

• First Principles
  • Objectives
  • Critiques
• File Management
  • Versions and backups
• Preliminaries
  • Instructions for Authors
  • Citations and reference handling
  • Collaborative Authoring
• Where to Start?
  • Introduction
  • What has already been done?
• As the Research Unfolds
  • Materials and methods
  • Results
  • Effective use of figures and tables
• Discussion
  • Literature review
  • Cross-disciplinary research
• Conclusions
• Abstracts
  • Content and writing
• Epilog
  • Journals
  • Impact factors
  • Open Access

Course info:

• Date & Time: 10:00-12:00, Friday February 17, 2017 (90-minutes + question and answer period)
• Venue: Seminar Room C700, Lab 3
• Audience: Professors, Researchers, Students
• Session: 1 session
• Language: English
• Facilitator: Steven Aird
• Registration: Closed