Academic Writing

Objectives

• "How to come from the first scientific idea to a structured content and finally to a written aca-demic text?"

Contents i.a.

• Pre-writing strategies that will help to organise scientific ideas
• From the development of a scientific working hypothesis to a structured content
• Work out the key messages of the thesis and make understandable presentations
• Writing a convincing and a motivating exposés (SMART rule) by linking ideas together coher-ently
• Coaching on issues and pitfalls of individual projects

Comments of participants on the past workshop

• "A lot of good advices on many points like how to focus on a research question, how to structure a dissertation, how to manage the timetable, how to formulate shortly one's subject in a convincing way."
• "I was expecting more details on scientific writing including the techniques used by professional scholars, positive vs. negative examples, discussion of the scientific style."
• "I only would like to mention a drawback about the practical works. PhD-thesis title (mine is not completed yet) should be kept confidential. Sharing the topic, the approaches to the topic and methodology is sometimes not a good idea since these topics are very critical and can be done for the first time. That is why I believe we should not share or read projects here."
• "The topic of the workshop is very effective for all PhD-students in the university while it would be more effective if it would be in two of three days to cover all the points and also the weekend (Saturday) will be better or Friday and Saturday."
• "It was a nice and perfect workshop but I guess it can be more helpful for the new PhD-students! I believe that the first part was a little boring for the students who have started their studies before and now they are in the middle of their education. The second part was too useful for me. I learned a lot!"
• "I am in the last year of my PhD-studies. I think this workshop is more helpful for PhD-students in earlier phases."
• "This workshop was so helpful to me and I think that now I can organize my priorities and think in an academic way while writing my dissertation and I learned many things which I would like to mention but owing to the space it is not possible. I hope that there will be a second part of this workshop."