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

Activity no.: 3746-15-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 01/04/2015
Date and time12.05.2015, at: 09:00 - 16:00
Regular seats25
Course fee1,080.00 kr.
LecturersHans Bräuner
ECTS credits0.70
Contact personMarianne Wieslander Jørgensen    E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
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:

a. Understand the functions of the different sections of a scientific paper.
b. Use the correct English tenses for each of the sections of their paper.
c. Describe their methodology concisely and accurately.
d. Present their scientific results in the optimum manner as tables and figures.
e. 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 an 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.

Language
English

Form
Lectures, exercises, group discussions

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

Teacher
Professor A C Moffat, School of Pharmacy, UCL

Course secretary
Marianne W. Jørgensen, marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk

Dates
12 May 2015

Course location
Universitetsparken 2, Copenhagen

Registration: Please register before 1 April 2015

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