Course Description

Nowadays success in science involves publishing articles in international journals in English. The English you learned at school is not sufficient; you need to master the formal English required for scientific and academic texts. The objective of this workshop is to improve your ability to produce clear, precise and readable academic texts. During the workshop you will work on a piece of scientific writing you have written and will receive individual correction and feedback from the instructor per email after the workshop.

Topics

- Conventions and features of academic writing

 - Improving coherence and flow

 - Avoiding common lexical and grammatical errors

 - Editing and improving your drafts

 - Punctuation, remedial grammar

 - Useful phrases

Learning Results

Participants will leave the workshop with a "toolbox" for scientific/academic writing, a phrasebank of useful expressions and an edited/poofread text.

Preparation

The workshop includes preparation work (reading), which you will be sent beforehand, and a post-course self-study grammar/vocabulary package. All participants are required to bring a text they have written to the workshop. The text must be approx. 1 A4 page long and should still be in an unpolished state, i.e. not yet proofread/edited by colleagues.