Communication into the Scientific Community: Paper Writing (online)

This workshop will enhance your skills in writing and editing scientific papers—from building and connecting sentences to creating convincing abstracts and tempting titles.

Your advantage: If you know how to write precisely, understandably and correctly, you will enjoy writing more!

Your success: A course script with many examples and checklists will make writing easier for you.

Your chance: If you like feedback on your texts, you are welcome to send text material to the trainer (eg@wortwirtschaft.de) until one week before the start of the course.

Topics:

Structural Designs

• How to introduce your topic
• How to structure your arguments
• How to emphasize, list, and discuss results
• How to conclude your findings

Scientific Writing Style

• How to avoid redundancies, scientific jargon, and clutter
• Awareness of formal and informal English
• How to build and link sentences logically
• What you should know about voice, person, and tense

Abstracts and Titles

• Abstract types
• Tempting titles
• Designing abstracts and titles: Dos and don’ts

How to Improve Draft Versions

• Using punctuation marks as essential information signs
• All about text feedback

This course will be conducted online.
Technical requirements: Access to internet, laptop, camera, microphone, zoom (potentially).
Your email address will be forwarded to the trainer for organizational reasons.