16 weeks = 72 academic hours
Writing in the Sciences is a concise but comprehensive course on how to write research papers in English. The course will give you a better understanding of academic writing and the common challenges you may face as a writer. The purpose of the course is to fill the gap – the one between knowing English through academic schooling and reading, and using that knowledge in a way that will help you get your paper published in an international journal.
COURSE REGISTRATION FORM
The course lasts 72 academic hours and comprises 10 major topics:
- Contrastive Rhetoric
- Writing Strategies
- Preparing the Text (IMRAD format)
- how to write the Introduction
- how to write the Materials & Methods section
- how to write the Results
- how to write the Discussion
- Writing an Abstract and a working title
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Editing your own paper
- the ten commandments of good writing
- tense in scientific writing
- active versus passive voice
- noun problems
- Journal analysis: analyzing journals for elimination and submission
- Creating a publishable paper
- Publishing the paper
- Ethics in Science
The course will provide you with a set of pragmatic strategies and tools you should apply when thinking about, outlining, writing, rewriting, and revising your paper. In addition, you will learn the unwritten rules of English rhetoric.