1-Day Workshop for Scientific and Medical Professionals and Students
MediWrite GmbH, Leimenstrasse 57, 4051 Basel
| Date: | August 24, 2018 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) |
| Venue: | MEDIWRITE GmbH, Leimenstrasse 57, 4051 Basel |
| Fees: | CHF 500 for working professionals; CHF 200 for students. The fees include all course materials and refreshments/lunch on the day. |
| Tutor: | Dr. Silvia M. Rogers (author of the books “Mastering Scientific and Medical Writing” and “Strategic Scientific and Medical Writing”, Springer, Heidelberg) |
| Contact: | Please send an e-mail to s.rogers@mediwrite.ch or call +4179 203 6948. |
The topics
- Good versus Poor Scientific Writing
- An introduction
- Common myths and misconceptions
- Guidelines and conventions: where to look for guidance
- Step by Step Towards Powerful Scientific Messages
- Healthy ratio of active vs. passive verbs
- Fewer prepositions
- Simple tenses (wherever possible), applied properly
- Parallelism at all times
- Modifiers in moderation
- Sound (and abundant) punctuation
- Standards and Style
- Consistent spelling (American versus British)
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Expressing numbers
- Using capital letters
- Some Details No One Dares to Ask….
- Subject-verb agreement
- Redundancies (double negatives, syntax, tautology, oxymoron)
- Dangling participles
- Use of ‘respectively’
- Structuring a paper or report
- Logical presentation of data
- Getting the “story” out