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Scientific Writing - a framework for writing a scientific paper
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3746-19-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 25/03/2019
Date and time30.04.2019, at: 09:00 - 16:00
Regular seats25
Course fee1,200.00 kr.
LecturersHans Bräuner
ECTS credits0.70
Contact personMarianne Wieslander Jørgensen    E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.

The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee.

Learning objectives
The aim is to give an understanding of the requirements to have a scientific paper or abstract published in the scientific press and to give practice in developing the writing skills to meet these requirements.

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. Understand the functions of the different sections of a scientific paper.
2. Use the correct English tenses for each of the sections of their paper.
3. Describe their methodology concisely and accurately.
4. Present their scientific results in the optimum manner as tables and figures.
5. Compare their results in relation to previously published information and be able to write a concise conclusion to their work.

Content
The course consists of interactive lectures, exercises in writing and group discussion sessions to critique published abstracts. The topics include: practical exercises in writing abstracts, writing an introduction, describing methodology, presenting data in tables and figures, writing a summary of a participant’s project and getting a list of references in the required style. There are group discussions on what makes a good (and bad) paper or abstract.
It is preferable, but not essential, that participants have written a conference abstract before attending the course. Participants should bring with them an example of a well written and informative paper in their field and be able to give reasons for its selection.

Participants
The target group will be PhD students within pharmaceutical sciences.

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Research Academy)
All graduate programmes

Language
English

Form
Lectures, exercises, group discussions.

Course director
Hans Bräuner-Osborne, Professor, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, hbo@sund.ku.dk

Teachers
A C Moffat, Professor, School of Pharmacy, UCL

Dates
30 April 2019

Course location
Universitetsparken 2/Jagtvej 160, 2100 Copenhagen

Registration
Please register before 25 March 2019.

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.


Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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