GRADUATE

ACADEMY

Online Course

Workshop language is English.

Target group

Researchers and other academic staff increasingly need to publish some of their work in English. This helps them reach a wider audience and improve their academic standing. Sometimes their level of English leads reviewers to reject the papers or readers to misunderstand or under-appreciate the contents.

The result is that their peers misunderstand or under-appreciate the author’s good work.

Objective

Leadership Sculptor offers a Scientific Writing Workshop to help participants gain confidence in their scientific writing and editing skills and to provide them with feedback and tips that will help them improve their current and future writing projects.

The full workshop comprises two-and-a-half days of interactive sessions that take participants step-by-step through the writing and revision of a paper or other similar document. We also offer a two-day version of the full workshop to accommodate client schedules.

The participants apply the theory to their own texts and receive individual feedback from the trainer on their texts and tips on how to improve their writing. This writing is an integral part of the course. Experience shows that, the more people put into this course, the more they learn.

By the end of the course each participant will have polished at least one text and will be able to approach their next paper with confidence.

Contents:

• The structure of papers and articles in English
• Getting your message across in English: The differences between logical argument in English and German
• The main style differences between English and German
• How to revise your writing at the article and paragraph level
• How to revise at the sentence level
• How to simplify your writing

Date & Time

July 02 - 03, 2024; each 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

July 04, 2024;   9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Trainer

Melanie Glickman, leadershipsculptor

Conditions of participation

Free of charge for doctoral students and postdocs in Magdeburg.

If you are unable to attend after registration, please contact us immediately at graduate.academy@ovgu.de  .

This allows us in particular to consider others interested in the course who are still on the waiting list. Please note that without your timely cancellation of your participation and/or in case of your non-appearance on the day of the event, we would be obliged to claim the pro-rata costs of the event incurred in relation to your person as damages. You are of course free to prove that the Graduate Academy has suffered no damage or less damage than the one claimed.