Category: scientific writing
Humanities School, Universidad de Murcia
“Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish—but that’s because academia has become that way, too. Today’s academic work, excellent though it may be, is the product of a shrinking system. It’s a tightly-packed, super-competitive jungle in there”.
Read the article by Joshua Rothman
Academic discourse – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Source: www.phdcomics.comReferences
Biber, D., Conrad, S. 2009. Register, genre and style. Cambridge: CUP.
Biber, D. Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan . 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.
Carter-Thomas, S., Rowley-Jolivet, E. 2003. Analysing the scientific conference presentation (CP). A methodological overview of a multimodal genre, ASp, 39-40, 59-72.
Carter-Thomas, S., Rowley-Jolivet, E. 2005. Genre Awareness and rhetorical appropriacy
: manipulation of information structure by NS and NNS scientists in the international
conference sett. English for Specific Purposes, 24,1: 41-64.
Glasman-Deal, H. 2009. Science Research Writing A Guide for Non-Native Speakers of English. World Scientific.
Hyland, K. 2009. Academic Discourse: English in a Global Context. London: Continuum
Rugg, G., Petre, M. 2004. The unwriten rules of PhD research. Berkshire: Open University Press.
Scitable: English communication for scientists: Giving oral presentations. Nature.com.
Presentations (general presentations)
How to deliver an oral presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
A bad presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Comparing oral presentations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The next session of Writing in the Sciences starts Tuesday September 2 on OpenEdX.
Registration is here: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Medicine/Sci-Write/Fall2014/about
Writing the discussion section – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Some more resources here.
