Actividades Formativas - Cómo escribir un artículo científico en ingles / How to write a scientific article in English (PRESENCIAL)

This 3-week course encourages students to improve their own academic writing style in English to publish articles in scientific journals. Therefore, the course objectives are the following:

• To reflect on the student’s process of academic writing in English, hence identiying mistakes and ways to correct them.
• To learn specific grammatical and lexical structures of English academic writing.

As far as the course contents are concerned, they are subdivided into two main parts (from general to specific):

1. AN INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC WRITING
   1. An introduction to British English vs. American English; formal vs. informal English.
   2. Writing structures: sentences, paragraphs, and sections.
   3. Sentence types and grammar.
   4. Academic writing vocabulary.
   5. Punctuation.  
2. WRITING A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE 2.1. The structure of the article.
   2. How to write a title.
   3. How to write an abstract.
   4. Writing bigger sections of your article: the introduction, literature review and state of the art, methodology, results, discussion of results, and conclusion.

Academic writing skills: defining, comparing, evaluating, highlighting, describing figures and tables, paraphrasing, summarizing, and citing sources.

IMPARTIDO POR: Dr. Daniel Martín González

DURACIÓN: 12 horas

DESTINATARIOS: Estudiantes de cualquier programa de doctorado de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid con un nivel de inglés B2 en adelante.