General Focus
Writing a scientific paper in a foreign language is tough work. When the time comes to write it, however, many students feel left to their own devices. But experience shows that most of the writing problems are technical in nature. This workshop will help you find patterns and meaningful ways to organize and structure your writing. You will write on your own publication project. Prior to attending, you will need to identify your target journal and bring along the guidelines for authors.
It is designed specially for non-native speakers.

An Interactive Method
Concrete exercises will support the structuring of your ideas and revision techniques will help to create clarity and precision. Peer review - a crucial part of the writing process - will contribute to improving the writing of both reviewers and writers.

Objectives
Learning and practising an appropriate strategy for an efficient execution of a scientific paper.

Duration: 20 hours

Requirements: at least TOEIC 1

PROGRAMME

1. OVERCOMING WRITER’S BLOCK
- The dangerous method: trying to write it right the first time
- Writing process presentation
- Starting the writing process

2. AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
- Rephrasing of an author's ideas in new words
- Critical analysis of a scientific article
- Taking notes on research articles

3. DEVELOPING A CONCEPT
- Why publish?
- What to publish?
- Where to publish?

4. PREPARING A RESEARCH PROJECT
- Getting started
- Creating a thesis statement
- Preparing an outline

5. PUTTING WORDS DOWN ON PAPER
- Dividing a research paper into manageable parts
- Collecting idea- tecnniques
- Strategies for quickly writing the first draft
- Integrating sources

6. EXPANDING THE OUTLINE
- Emphasizing your results
- Coherence and logic in argumentative writing
- Conciseness: methods of eliminating wordiness
- Strategies for improving sentence clarity
- Constructing effective paragraphs
- Using the right tense

7. CATCHING YOUR READER'S ATTENTION
- Tips and tricks
- The title - accurate, informative, attractive
- Choosing appropriate key words
- The first impression: the abstract
- Common errors to avoid