Formation « Scientific writing skills »

Objectives:

• Improve your grammatical accuracy and your written scientific style.
• Highlight your contribution to the literature in the “abstract” and the introduction of your article.

Program:

> The most frequent grammatical errors in scientific articles: explanations and practical exercises.

> Writing an abstract:

• The purpose of an abstract. How to make it attractive.
• The structure of an abstract.
• Drawing attention to your contribution to the literature.
• Reading authentic abstracts written by scientists of various disciplines and analysis of their structure.
• Improving your abstract: practical exercise.

> Characteristics of good scientific style in English: brainstorming and examples.

> Strategy to develop scientific style and vocabulary through active reading.

> The structure of a scientific article and tense use in each section.

> Writing the introduction: examples of impactful first sentences.

> Different possible structures for the introduction.

> Reading and analysis of some extracts of introductions.

> Citing the literature.

> Identifying points to improve in your introduction.