Scientific Writing and Communication Seminar

Aim:
The course aims to provide the students with theoretical knowledge about various elements of scientific writing, practical experience on text editing, and provide the students with tools to improve their scientific texts, and communicate orally research results in a good way.

The course is intended to convey understanding of how to organize a scientific manuscript, how to improve on all parts of the text, including clear writing, and how to write an informative and convincing cover letter. The course will also present and discuss what is good research communication.

Content:
The course covers how to organize ideas, results and messages in a scientific paper; how to improve on titles and abstracts; how to present a clear problem statement, and present practical tips on punctuation, grammar and numbering in a text. The course also provides the students with knowledge on how to communicate research in a good way.

Upon completing the course, the student should have:

Knowledge regarding:

- How to structure a scientific manuscript

- How to identify parts of a scientific text that would benefit from improvement

- English punctuation and numbering

- Content of a precise and covering title

- How to formulate a problem statement

- Structure and content of a good abstract

- Structure and content of informative and convincing cover letters

- Important principles for communicating research data

Skills - The student knows how to:

- Structure a scientific manuscript

- Improve on the title at presentation of scientific data

- Improve a manuscript abstract

- Formulate a precise problem statement and an informative and covering manuscript title

- Improve on a manuscript text regarding grammar, punctuation and numbering

- Improve on own communication of research data

General competencies:

- The student knows how to evaluate scientific texts and suggests improvements with respect to clear writing, and precision with respect to the text content.

- The student is familiar with literature on recommendations for good scientific writing

- The student is conscious about how scientific data is communicated and knows tools to improve on own presentations.