Effective scientific communications. Scientific writing skills, abstracts and posters, presentation skills

Lecturer:

Course typ:

Workshop

Description:

The course is given by John Dixon, Libra Communications Training, Bishop's Stortford, UK.

IMPORTANT: pre-work required! Only sign up if you will be able to do the pre-work (see below).

Contents of the course:

Scientific writing skills

* Planning: critical planning information, time allocation, creating order out of chaos, software - bibliography, mind-mapping, use of MS Word
* Effective writing style
* Refining your style - concise writing exercise over lunch
* Words, grammar and punctuation
* Core sections of scientific papers (IMRaD)
* Publishing, journals and authorship
* Checking your paper
* Submit, handle comments, get cited

Abstracts and posters

* Abstracts and titles
* Abstracts - manuscript: guidelines for writing concise and appropriate abstracts, organisation, style, tenses, common errors

Poster design

* Presentation skills
* Handling presentation nerves
* Preparing the content (lecture and discussion)
* "Slide rules
* "Rogues gallery"

Pre-work:

* bring research paper
* bring own piece of writing (350-500 words)
* prepare 5-minute presentation

Comments by participants:

* Dr. Dixon did an excellent job as an instructor. The handouts were extremely helpful and handy. I would definitely recommend this course to my peers.
* This workshop has by far been the best I"ve ever attended as a PhD student. The trainer (Dr. John Dixon) was extremely engaging and presented the material with such enthusiasm. I learned a lot from this workshop, from writing scientifically to abstract/poster/presentations. Loved it - highly recommended!

* John is a great, charming and very sensible teacher and definitely knows what he is talking about. He definitely showed the enthusiasm during the course he was mentioning to be the key element. The handouts/exercises were brilliant, in a simple and straightforward way. The glossary on writing may become invaluable important for future manuscripts.

* The workshop is exactly what is supposed to be: Training on scientific communication. The instructor was excellently prepared and was able to adapt to the audience"s needs. I would definitely recommend it to anyone working in the science field.

* John is an excellent teacher and in addition to being really informative, the course was a lot of fun. Definitely recommendable.

Place:

unspecified

Semester:

WiSe 2017/18

Times:

Dates on Tuesday, 06.03.2018 - Thursday, 08.03.2018 09:00 - 17:00
First appointment: Tuesday, 06.03.2018 09:00 - 17:00

Course number:

340224

Participants:

Target group: GGNB doctoral students.

Learning organisation:

The 3-day workshop will take place on 6-8 March 2018 at the GZMB/Ernst-Caspari-Haus, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232 (http://www.geodata.uni-goettingen.de/lageplan/?ident=1524\_2\_EG_0.232).

Area classification:

Vorlesungsverzeichnis WiSe 2017/2018 > Forschungseinrichtungen > Göttinger Graduiertenschulen > Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS) > Göttinger Graduiertenschule für Neurowissenschaften und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB) > Professional Skills, Industry Excursions > Scientific Communication

ECTS credit points:

1.5

Further information from Stud.IP about this course

Home institute: Göttinger Graduiertenzentrum für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)
Participants registered in Stud.IP: 4
Number of postings in Stud.IP forum: 2