How To Write A Scientific Paper

The course is a three day intensive event with online lectures & 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 deals not only with 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 competences 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 stats 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 • Multivarate 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 given Excel® add-ins that carry out tasks that Excel® does not natively perform. Attendees will be expected to have used Excel® and to have a good working knowledge of the software’s basic functions.