Science Communication is about finding confidence when speaking in public

You can apply these skills directly to any public speaking event in your domain, such as seminars, conferences, and symposia.

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Introduction to the Course

Over the period of a semester, we will investigate, reflect on, discuss, and practice all parts that make up a journal article. The main approach is through rhetorical analysis of what the text does and implement these in our own text. To get the most out of this, we suggest you work on your own article. Our overall aim is that after the semester, you’ll have a paper which is (near) ready for submission.

Objectives

  • Identify and critically evaluate different rhetorical devices in journal articles
  • Write and revise their draft for different rhetorical devices.
  • Review drafts of journal articles and give and take constructive feedback to learn and revise their own text
  • Draft an effective cover letter stipulating the needs of their draft journal article
  • Develop a full academic paper through various revision loops, including online and face-to-face peer review

Outcomes

After the course, our students:

  • can diagnose their own writing process and writing techniques, and experiment with this process to best suit their personal writing needs, and develop as scientific writers;
  • can understand writing requirements for their discipline and specific journal requirements;
  • can improve their text to be more scientific, formal, informal, and can communicate their message to different target groups;
  • have developed their skills to critically analyse and give feedback to written and oral texts;
  • can receive and integrate feedback;

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Take part in all the seminars and try to follow all the challenges that are given to you - that would really develop your presentation skills.

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I wanted to develop my presentation skills and to find out what makes a presentation a good one - and I did. We had both lectures and practical sessions, and that was good.

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I have performed in public for a long time, since I have a band. But I have little experience about delivering scientific papers. This course gave me important insights about that.

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This course has developed my presentation skills. I do appreciate that it was conducted in online mode during the quarantine and everybody was and to participate. Also, it is important that a lot of new digital tools were presented to us to develop our presentations. For sure, a friendly atmosphere helped a lot during the course as well.

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The course was much more useful than I anticipated, and really diversified my perception of presentations.

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Developing the act of communicating well is a good skill every researcher needs. The course was thus very useful in developing this skill. My expectations were met. Much appreciation to the team of instructors - they are very enthusiastic and displayed so much knowledge of subject matter.

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