Academic Writing (for Research and Professional Purposes)

The two-day workshop Academic Writing covers the basics of grant and scientific writing. Writing a successful research proposal or paper requires strong research skills, content knowledge, writing proficiency, and organizational ability. This course provides participants with the background, skills, and key steps necessary to compose a competitive funding proposal and a clear, concise, and effective scientific manuscript.

Developing a strong research idea and considering writing skills is as important as understanding the elements of a proposal package or manuscript. By writing and reviewing typical components of academic texts, participants learn how to outline a research proposal and manuscript start to finish.

Main objectives

• Know how to develop, organize, and outline a research proposal / paper
• Understand the essential components of a grant proposal / manuscript package
• Be able to write a compelling abstract

Methodology

The workshop combines presentation (including video clips), discussion (partner, small group, round table), and practical hands-on exercises. Copies of checklist, writing guideline, list of useful phrases, and various sample abstracts will be provided.

Target group

Doctoral / postdoctoral candidates with no or little experience in writing research proposals and manuscripts.

Notes
Participants should think about a possible topic for a research application or manuscript (now or in the future) and should bring their current or past proposal (if they have such) as well as their laptop computer with any operating system for writing exercises.

• planning and organising a piece of academic text and its paragraph structure
• knowing the importance ofintroductions and conclusions
• writing a topic sentence
• developing ideas and arguments
• improving one's academic lexis
• summarising and paraphrasing