Content

• Meeting the needs of an English reader or a reader of English. Motivating your reader.
• Contrasting weak and strong scientific writing; turning weak writing into strong.
• Storytelling in sentences: how to communicate your ideas clearly. Strategies for being more precise and concise (e.g., positioning the verb and finding the real subject).
• Understanding the function and structure of English sentence beginnings and endings to ensure clarity, cohesiveness, and appropriate emphasis (e.g., moving from known to new information).
• Solving "Der rote Faden" Problem: the secrets to creating smooth, readable texts that guide readers from sentence to sentence, paragraph, and section to section.
• Framing knowledge: structuring information effectively at the document level (e.g., zooming in and out) and making structure explicit.
• Self-diagnosing problems and giving peer feedback.
• Understanding your writing style. Overcoming writer`s block and procrastination. Strategies for drafting and revising.

Goal

This webinar presents tools to effectively start and finish papers for publication. Participants take up both the product and process of scientific paper writing. We consider (1) the product: how to meet the requirements of concision, clarity, coherence, and persuasion at the English sentence, sentence to sentence, paragraph and discourse levels and (2) the process: how to move from data to story, how to motivate yourself to write, and how to draft and to revise. Participants will also receive feedback on their own scientific writing.

Target group

Scientific staff