• Format: face to face, four whole days

• Target participants: graduate students and post-docs

• Offered through: several graduate programs at collaborating institutions

Course overview

Publishing a paper or writing a thesis are important stepping stones for a scientist. Writing high-impact science requires polish and politics. Your success will depend not just on your ability to write clearly and succinctly, but also your ability to identify and communicate with confidence the core messages of your research.

In this workshop, we will learn effective scientific writing and then take what we learned to prepare a research manuscript.

You will read and edit both published and unpublished scientific manuscripts, and you will prepare your own scientific manuscript.

• Format: virtual, synchronous

• Target participants: early-career academic writers

• Offered through: Integrative and Comparative Biology

Workshop overview

This series of workshops is offered at request through the academic journal Integrative and Comparative Biology to its authors, usually as part of a special issue

Topics: clink link for a full list of topics

• writing issues such as writer's block, English additional language writers, working with co-authors, creating a cohesive narrative

• elements of a research paper (Introduction, Results, figures, Discussion)

• publication process such as how to respond to peer reviews