Course: Science Writing for clinical or epidemiological research (Science Writing course)

 

Frequency:
Twice per year
1) January/February - June
2) September - January

The goal of the course is to improve the quality of scientific writing of quantitative research in health research. There will be interactive plenary lectures and coach group meetings.

Various topics will be discussed during the interactive lectures. During the interactive lectures the students will be provided with (parts of) draft manuscripts and are asked to furnish the manuscript with an abstract, title or keywords. In additional, data will be given and students will be asked to construct a table or a figure.

The coach groups will consist of 3 to 4 students and a coach. The students will send (parts) of concept manuscripts to the coaches one week prior to the next meeting. The coaches and the other students in the coach groups will provide the students with feedback about concept manuscripts. The interactive lectures will be given in 2 to 3-hour sessions. The coach group meetings will take 1 to 2 hours. There will be around 7 lectures and 4 to 5 coach group meetings.

The course will take over 5 months.

Course manual.

NB!
- This course is not suitable for PhD students in the field of biomedical research.
- PhD students with little writing experience (emerging scientific writers) are referred to the GSMS Publishing in English course.
- This course is NOT open for Research Master students
- Before the start of the course, participants should have already written a substantial part of their draft research paper.
- Review papers are NOT suitable for this course.

Sessions
1. Introduction to the course
2. Introduction section
3. Method section
4. Result section
5. Discussion section
6. Reviewers, rejection, resubmission
7a. Writing an abstract
7b. How to improve impact of your research

NB.
1) The course is meant for clinical research (quality of life, psychology, epidemiology). If your research is in a field like the fields mentioned above, then you can participate.
If your research is in the field of biomedical research (e.g. biomarkers, lab-oriented research or research on very basal processes) you cannot participate in this course.

2) Before the start of the course you must have written a substantial part of your article (introduction, methods, part of the results). You will assess each other's articles in the coach groups, so if you have not written enough then that will undermine the group dynamic.

EC (without exam)

2

Course coordinator

• Hanneke Wardenaar-Wigman
  

Language

English

Target Groups

• PhD students

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