Description:
During this course the students will focus on improving their English writing skills. Students will practice several short writing assignments in sub-groups. During feedback sessions students will discuss the best strategies. Students will be more extensively trained in the background and basics of writing scientific English. Scientific papers should be written in a style that is exceedingly clear and concise. Students will become acquainted with different forms of scientific writing and discuss basic outlines. In addition, they will read and discuss the strengths and the weaknesses of several scientific papers.
Objective(s):
Acquisition of a profound academic development in the field of academic writing. Students will be able to write concise, clear and well-structured papers. Simultaneously they will be trained to argue scientifically and outline their arguments on the basis of scientific articles and current insights.
More specifically:
The student understands the basic principles of scientific communication.
The student can describe and is able to apply the major principles of writing a scientific essay.
The student can describe and is able to apply the major principles of writing a research article or a systematic review.
Teaching format:
Working groups, writing exercises.
Examination:
This course leads up to final assignments I and II: Writing a scientific essay and research article.