Goal:

This course will give you practical tips and strategies for writing scientific articles in English. Designed as a two-day workshop, the main objective of this course is to learn to identify and produce the most important elements in English academic writing. The first day offers a series of exercises and points to ponder, whereas the second day offers the students an opportunity to apply these tips and strategies in an "Editing Clinic". During the second day, the students will be taught a ten-step editing process that they will apply to texts in class.


Material: Booklet handed out by the instructor.

Contents:

January 26, 2012:   

9:00-9:45  Online sources: Scientific, clear, transparent

9:45-11:00 Drafting, Differences between Finnish and Anglo-American traditions

11:00-11:30  Components of a Scientific Article, The Sequence of Writing

11:30 Lunch

12:15 Problems, Transitions, Tenses

14:00 Coffee break

14:15 Old Information and New Information, Nouns and Verbs for Academic Writing

15:30 Self-editing
16:00 End of the day

Scientific Writing: The "Editing Clinic": Revising English Texts

February 9, 2012

The students select a scientific text from their field and also bring in two to three pages of their own writing (5 copies of these pages). These texts will be evaluated in class.

9:00-10:30 Introduction to editing. Practice of editing on the "ideal" article in your field

10:30-10:40 Short break

10:40-11:30 Editing
11:30-12:10 Lunch  (40 min.)

12:10-14:00 Editing groups

14:00-14:20 Coffee break (20 min.)

14:20-15:25  Editing Groups

15:25-16:00  Course Discussions (Questions and Answers)

16:00   End of the course

NB! Enrolment has ended. Enrolled students will be notified about admittance.