Workshop: Effective scientific writing and publishing - Details

Workshop: Effective scientific writing and publishing - Details

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Course name Workshop: Effective scientific writing and publishing
Subtitle
Course number 340509
Semester SoSe 2021
Current number of participants 16
maximum number of participants 16
Home institute Göttinger Graduiertenzentrum für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)
Courses type Workshop in category Teaching
First date Monday, 06.09.2021 09:00 - 13:00
Type/Form
Participants Target group: GGNB and GAUSS doctoral students.
Learning organisation \---| Online workshop \---|

This is a virtual workshop over three half-days!

The workshop will be held via the videoconferencing software Zoom. Further information on how to use the software will be provided to registered participants.
ECTS points 1.0

Rooms and times

No room preference
Monday, 06.09.2021 09:00 - 13:00
Tuesday, 07.09.2021 09:00 - 13:00
Wednesday, 08.09.2021 09:00 - 13:00

Comment/Description

The course is given by Dr. John Dixon, Libra Communications Training, Bishop's Stortford, UK.


Workshop description

During the first two half-days, we cover the following: basic writing style; refining your style; being concise and correct (including scientifically relevant grammar and punctuation issues); writing manuscripts and abstracts; and preparing figures and tables.

During the third half-day, we discuss planning, revising and proofreading your work, and consider the publication process: authorship, journal selection, submission and peer review.

Using the Zoom platform, this workshop comprises short lectures, exercises, brainstorming in breakout rooms and an open invitation to ask questions, express opinion and share experience.



Comments about workshops by John Dixon from participants:

* Dr. Dixon did an excellent job as an instructor. The handouts were extremely helpful and handy. I would definitely recommend this course to my peers.
* This workshop has by far been the best I"ve ever attended as a PhD student. The trainer was extremely engaging and presented the material with such enthusiasm. I learned a lot from this workshop, from writing scientifically to abstract/poster/presentations. Loved it - highly recommended!

* John is a great, charming and very sensible teacher and definitely knows what he is talking about. He definitely showed the enthusiasm during the course he was mentioning to be the key element. The handouts/exercises were brilliant, in a simple and straightforward way. The glossary on writing may become invaluable important for future manuscripts.

* The workshop is exactly what is supposed to be: Training on scientific communication. The instructor was excellently prepared and was able to adapt to the audience"s needs. I would definitely recommend it to anyone working in the science field.

* John is an excellent teacher and in addition to being really informative, the course was a lot of fun. Definitely recommendable.

* John is very experienced and it is more fun and relevant given that he has a scientific background. Strongly enjoyed these 3 days and will recommend this course to my peers.

* John is using magic tricks for PhD students to artistically open up. Very rare, very useful. I think that"s what we all, as scientists, lack.

* Very competent and lovely trainer; it was a lot of fun! He provides a plenty of material that I will definetly use later in my scientific career.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "GGNB_Skills_2021_SoSe_Juli_September".
You can register and sign out for courses in September 2021 from 1-20 July 2021. The slots will be assigned around 25 July 2021.
You can still sign out until 31 July 2021.
Your participation becomes binding on 1 August 2021. Thereafter, cancellation is only possible via the GGNB Office with a) sick certificate, or b) statement by supervisor. If you do not provide this, you will be excluded from courses for the next 12 months, as well as travel grants and other financial support.

By signing up you agree (1) to carefully check whether you will be able to attend the course (do not register for 2 courses taking place on the same dates – the above mentioned sanctions apply!), (2) to frequently check your student e-mail account, as all information on courses will exclusively be sent to that account; (3) that your name and e-mail address may be forwarded to the course instructor(s) for communication before and after the course; (4) to complete the course evaluation.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
      • Subject is Geographie
      • Subject is Geowissenschaften
      • Subject is Geoscience
      • Subject is Earth and Environmental Sciences
      • Subject is Geography
      • Subject is MolecularPhysi oftheBrain
      • Subject is PhysicsBiologComplexSyste
      • Subject is IRTG 2172 - PRoTECT
      • Subject is Biomol:Struc-Func-Dynamic
      • Subject is Molekulare Medizin
      • Subject is Emerging Infect. Diseases
      • Subject is Molekulare Biologie
      • Subject is SensoryMotor Neuroscience
      • Subject is Neurowissenschaften
      • Subject is Systems Neuroscience
      • Subject is MolecularBiology of Cells
      • Subject is Microbiology-Biochemistry
      • Subject is Genes in Development, Disease and Evolution
      • Subject is Genome Science
      • Subject is Theoret Computat Neurosci
      • Subject is Physik
      • Subject is MetalSites i.Biomolecules
      • Subject is Catalysis Sust.Synt.CaSuS
      • Subject is Psychologie
      • Subject is Environmental Informatics
      • Subject is Umweltinformatik
      • Subject is Materialforschung Holz
      • Subject is Biologie
      • Subject is Computer Science -PCS-
      • Subject is Biologische Diversität und Ökologie
      • Subject is BioNutz-MolwissBiotechnol
      • Subject is Behavior and Cognition
      • Subject is Chemie
      • Subject is Mathematical Sciences
  • Enrolment is allowed for up to 2 courses of the admission set.
  • The enrolment is possible from 01.07.2021, 00:00 to 20.07.2021, 23:59.
  • The following categories of people are preferred during seat allocation:

    Higher semesters will be preferred.
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Degree is PromStudiengang Cotutelle
    • Degree is PromProgramm Cotutelle
    • Degree is Promotion m.Abschlussprfg
    • Degree is Promotion Cotutelle
    • Degree is Promotionsprogramm
    • Degree is Promotionsstudiengang
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 25.07.2021 on 23:59. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
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