Writing A Scientific Journal Article
The advancement of an academic career usually involves submitting articles to journals in English. This workshop aims to make your work more publishable according to English standards of style and clarity. We shall refer to articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Science, or PNAS to fully understand cultural style and the differences between journals.
A reader will be supplied.
Reference books:
- How To Write & Publish A Scientific Paper, 9th Ed. (2022) Barbara Gastel & Robert Day (Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-1440878848)
- Getting it Across: An Effective Guide to Academic Writing 2nd ed. by Soren, Johnson (ISBN: 9789085940388)
Workshop Objectives
The following themes will be dealt with according to the participants’ needs from 10am to 1pm on two days.
- Titles and the importance of a hook.
- Structuring your text: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion
- Storytelling within the confines of science
- The influence of cultural style on writing
- The importance of editing and decluttering your text
- Tightening your findings
- Where and how to submit your paper
- Adapting articles for individual journals: formatting and style
- How to overcome writer’s block
- The review process
- Coping with rejection and the long process of getting published
Dr Sonja Price taught Academic and Creative Writing at Jena University, where she also worked as a research assistant at the Department of Intercultural Business Communication. She has taught workshops at many universities in Germany, including the LMU in Munich, and is the author of academic papers and a published novelist.
The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 12. Please register until August 30, 2026 via this registration page.
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