Workshop Outline

Benefits of completing an academic writing workshop

By completing an academic writing workshop participants will:

  • Understand the culture of science publishing and why it is important to publish. 
  • Develop the skills required to write well-structured and easy-to-read scientific articles, including the ability to be precise, clear, concise and interesting.
  • Create drafts of paragraphs and outlines of their academic writing.
  • Apply writing, editing and time management techniques to their academic writing. 
  • Produce written material that leverages the insights into editorial decision-making and the peer-review process. 
  • Understand the protocols and ethics of scientific publication. ​

 

The workshop

All workshops are interactive, with participants encouraged to think and discuss every aspect of the peer-reviewed publishing process. Each workshop can be tailored to the needs of your group. The topics are designed to be modular and workshops can be altered accordingly.

The facilitator will contact participants before the workshop to identify their barriers to writing, and if they have specific needs or skill gaps they wish to address. 

Each participant will receive a copy of the book Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words (Second Edition) by David Lindsay.

 

Topics Covered in CSIRO Academic Writing Workshops

  • Science publishing culture: Choosing the right journal for the right reasons. 
  • Writing as part of your research: Using outlines, mind-maps and paragraph structure to develop a research question and start the paper.
  • Writing your paper: Structuring the introduction, method, results, discussion and conclusion for improved clarity and flow.
  • Making your writing focused
  • Making your writing interesting
  • Techniques to overcome writers’ block 
  • Get your paper noticed: Writing titles and abstracts
  • Protocols and ethics of scientific publication 
  • Getting your paper published: submission and responding to editors and reviewers