Scientific writing
Scientific Writing: Putting Why before How
(May 26 & 27, 9:30 – 17:30 each day, Dioscórides Building @ Faculty Room)
The goal of this workshop is to help publishing scientists develop a more impartial, analytical view of scientific writing, to better understand their readers as the focus for
their scientific communication, and to make them more efficient writers and editors. Their writing will no longer be driven by a standard formula for How? to write a paper, but will be inspired by the question Why?
Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the structure of scientific papers, with a renewed focus on the purpose of each section and the connections between them. They will gain a global framework for conceptualizing the entire publishing process, how to create an expectation in the reader and then deliver on that expectation, and how to make the qualitative jump from a passive scientific account to an active scientific argument. Finally, we will explore some common problems of language construction that make scientists’ writing unclear, and why we are prone to these problems; we will practice some intuitive editing tools to address them.
Furthermore, we will explore how AI tools can be used to support our writing.
Workshop Content:
➢ Five stages of Publishing
➢ Who is my reader?
➢ Creating an Expectation: Destination and Roadmap
➢ Building structure and connectivity: Guide Layer
➢ From scientific report to a scientific argument: Sentence Outline
➢ Writing for Readability – words, sentences, and paragraphs
➢ Using AI in Scientific Writing
Workshop Style:
This is an interactive workshop with extensive elements of partner work, exercises, group discussion. We use innovative training methods and proven didactic
techniques, and place special emphasis on sharing and learning from the participants’ own expertise and experience. To increase impact and applicability,
we work with real-life cases from the participants whenever possible. We may ask participants to reserve time for individual preparatory work before the workshop
Target audience:
PhD students (2nd, 3rd, 4th year or longer) and junior Postdocs at the CIC.
Registration Form: Enlace
This training course is part of the activities outlined in the FICUS Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) Action Plan, which will be open for all FICUS, Univ
Salamanca, and CSIC trainees working at the CIC.