Why this course?

Description

Scientific writing is a necessary skill that must be learned by repetitive practice of reading, writing, and revising. Scientific writing can take many forms such as a project report or dissertation or scientific article in an academic journal. This workshop is intended to impart researchers with basic skills in writing and publishing a scientific paper in a national or international journal. The workshop will help the participants to understand how to draft a scientific paper, become familiar to construct an argument in a scientific manuscript, do effective literature search and review, manage references using different software, understand authorship, plagiarism, and ethics in publication. In addition, the course will provide participants an understanding of the submission process and peer review, selection of a journal, and responding to reviewers’ comments. If participants have sufficient data to begin writing a paper, they could work on the draft during group work and exercises in the course with feedback from the instructor.