Workshop Description
The online Scientific Writing Workshop was a writing course for early-career scientists running over 4 half days. It teached the skills for producing research papers of the highest quality for the world's top journals. The workshop has been designed to give participants the confidence to begin publishing in the increasingly competitive world of science.
The course instructors are Justin Mullins and Mark Buchanan, two experienced scientific writers and editors. The workshop includes the following elements:
• How high-profile journals 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
• Effective sentences and why they work
• The secrets of editing and group editing
• Intensive exercises to demonstrate key points
• One-to-one feedback session with each student