How To Write A Scientific Paper

The course is a three-day intensive event with online lectures and interactive sessions. How to Write a Scientific Paper is an international and unique course that has been successfully held in Europe and the Middle East since 2010. It is run by one of our Institutes. Each iteration has led to fine-tuning of the contents via feedback from successive attendees.

The course addresses not only the writing skills and standards expected of rigorous and exacting academic work but also the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of this style of writing. This event is suitable for all individuals in the sciences who wish to enhance their paper-writing skills by acquiring sound competencies in academic writing.

The course is delivered by highly experienced researchers, lecturers, and journal editors through online lectures and interactive sessions.

Course Content

• Introduction to the meeting

• What can I publish & types of studies

• Editors’ perspectives & dealing with editors

• Which journals to target and why

• Data entry in Excel, forms & pivot tables

• Plagiarism and ethics of dealing with colleagues

• Critical appraisal of existing research

• Introduction to statistics using Excel

• Ethical approval, informed consent

• Grant availability and application

• Preparing an abstract

• Writing for the media

• Contingency tables and relative risk

• Structuring a scientific paper

• Preparing a thesis & the differences from a paper

• Research metrics

• RefWorks

• Correlation, regression

• Bogus journals and open access

• Data protection

• Preparing a proposal

• Meta-analysis

• Preparing a poster

• Sample size

• Survival analysis, NNT

• PowerPoint à la Mayer’s Multimedia Learning

• Multivariate analysis

• Interfacing with the lab

• Statistics session

• Kleos Aphthiton

Course Prerequisites

Attendees will be expected to have Excel® installed on their own laptops and will be provided with Excel® add-ins that carry out tasks Excel® does not natively perform. Attendees should have used Excel® before and have a good working knowledge of the software’s basic functions.

Covers all aspects of paper writing

Proposal - Ethics - Analysis - Writing - Peer Review.

Facilitated statistics using Excel™.