Scientific Writing and Presenting in English
The objective of the writing course is to help participants complete the most important parts of a manuscript, or otherwise selected parts of different manuscripts.
Overview
The course will start with two plenary sessions that provide guidelines for writing a clearly argued text. On Day 2, participants will peer-review each other’s Abstracts, and on Day 3 their Introductions.
In the next phase each participant will receive 2 hours and 30 minutes of one-to-one feedback and guidance on their writing – in other words, personalised analyses of readability, argument-building and grammar. To explain and provide exercises on the commonest points and problems that arise, this work will be supported by extensive references to the course book 'Guidelines for clarity and readability in biomedical writing'.
The course will be completed with further rounds of one-to-one follow-ups, this time totalling 2 hours and 15 minutes. A timetable for these will be drawn up during the course.
Follow this course
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Course dates
The course starts on these Wednesdays at 9:00 AM and goes until 5:00 PM. Attendance on all days is mandatory.
Follow this course
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Requirements
Follow this course
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Presentation course
Apart from a short plenary session, these activities will take place in small groups. Per person, they will require no more than one half day followed by one full day.
While the course will almost certainly require participants to present online, account will be taken of the differences between online presentations and “real,” “live,” on-stage presentations. In both cases, we will focus on presenting naturally and interestingly; on co-ordinating speech and visuals, and on the roles of voice and – where visible – gesture and body language.
Follow this course
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Location
The course will be held at the ACTA building. The course can, unfortunately, not be followed via Zoom, or Microsoft Teams.
Follow this course
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Overview
The course will start with two plenary sessions that provide guidelines for writing a clearly argued text. On Day 2, participants will peer-review each other’s Abstracts, and on Day 3 their Introductions.
In the next phase each participant will receive 2 hours and 30 minutes of one-to-one feedback and guidance on their writing – in other words, personalised analyses of readability, argument-building and grammar. To explain and provide exercises on the commonest points and problems that arise, this work will be supported by extensive references to the course book 'Guidelines for clarity and readability in biomedical writing'.
The course will be completed with further rounds of one-to-one follow-ups, this time totalling 2 hours and 15 minutes. A timetable for these will be drawn up during the course.
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Course dates
The course starts on these Wednesdays at 9:00 AM and goes until 5:00 PM. Attendance on all days is mandatory.
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Requirements
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Presentation course
Apart from a short plenary session, these activities will take place in small groups. Per person, they will require no more than one half day followed by one full day.
While the course will almost certainly require participants to present online, account will be taken of the differences between online presentations and “real,” “live,” on-stage presentations. In both cases, we will focus on presenting naturally and interestingly; on co-ordinating speech and visuals, and on the roles of voice and – where visible – gesture and body language.
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
Location
The course will be held at the ACTA building. The course can, unfortunately, not be followed via Zoom, or Microsoft Teams.
If you want to follow this course, please send an e-mail with your name and department to: onderzoekinstituut@acta.nl
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