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Monday, January 25 Tuesday, January 26
9:30pm -11:30am
A) Before You Begin Writing
1) Is your Work Ready to Publish?

2) Choosing a Journal
3) Getting Organized
4) Define the Question and the Answer
5) General Principles

 
B) Parts of a Scientific Manuscript -
    Definition, Content and Optimization
1) Title
2) Abstract
3) Introduction
a) Topic Sentence
b) Previous Studies
c) Gap in Exiting Knowledge
d) Background of Study
e) Hypothesis or Overall Conclusion
 
Lunch Read: Writing the Abstract,
Exercise 1: Abstracts
 
 
1:00pm - 4:30pm
4) Materials and Methods
a) Purpose
b) What should be included
c) Necessary/Unnecessary Information
5) Results
6) Figures and Tables
7) Discussion
8) Continuity of the Parts
Exercise 30: Identify the question and the answer
Read: Intro vs. Discussion paper and Writing the
            Discussion
 
C) Writing the First Draft
1) Organization
2) Authorship
3) Keeping Your Momentum
4) Revising the First Draft -Overview
a) First Revisions- thesis, scope,overall
   consistency
b) Second Revisions- topic sentences,
   documentation, clarity
c) Third Revisions- grammar
Exercise 34: Identify keywords in your research
                         project
Read: Plagarism Sleuths
9:30pm -11:30am
D) Revision - Part 1
1) Revise for Structure and Style
a) Structural Changes
b) Paragraph Structurei.
   Organization- Topic Sentences
ii. Continuity  
iii. Emphasis- Linking Key Terms Exercise 17
iv. Transitions Exercise 18
v. Paragraph Length  
2) Revise for Clarity
a) Person and Point of View
b) Readability-Sentence Length
c) Expected Order of Ideas
d) Strings of Nouns/Adjectives
e) Hedging
f) Parallelism in Comparisons
 
Lunch Exercise 34:
Identify and analyze keywords
 
 
1:00pm - 4:30pm
E) Revision - Part 2
1) Revise for Brevity
a) It - That Phrases
b) Redundancy - Condensing
c) Active and Passive Voice
d) Subject - Verb agreement
e) Connections
f) Comparisons and Lists
g) Parallelism in Sentences
h) Verb Tense
i) Treat numbers clearly and sensibly
Exercise 6: Comparisons and Lists
Read: Disputed Definitions
 
F) Grammar for Scientists
1) Word Choice
a) Recognize and Minimize Jargon
b) Choose the Right Word
i) Words Commonly Interchanged
ii) Which and That
2) Punctuation, Capitalization, Scientific Names
 
G) Final Words of Advice
1) Polishing the Final Look of your Document
2) Cover Letter
3) Responding to Reviews
 
H) Course Evaluation
1) Polishing the Final Look of your Document
2) Cover Letter
3) Responding to Reviews
Survey
 
References
  • Successful Scientific Writing. 2000. JR Matthews, JM Bowen, and RW Matthews, eds.
    Cambridge Univ Press, New York, NY.
  • Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers. 2000. M Zeiger. McGraw Hill, USA.
  • The Art of Scientific Writing. 2004. HF Ebel, C Bliefert, WE Russey, eds, Wiley-VCH,Germany.