Description
In this course, you will :
- Introduces the course and goes over fundamental writing principles. You will practice removing clutter from your writing in particular.
- focuses on writing with strong, energetic verbs. Lessons cover how to write in the active person, avoid turning verbs into nouns, select strong verbs, and swiftly get to the primary verb of a sentence.
- discusses how to alter sentence form and build effective paragraphs. You will practice writing well-organized and short paragraphs as well as using the dash, colon, semi-colon, and parentheses.
- reviews the writing process. I'll give you some pointers on how to make the writing process easier, more efficient, and more organized.
- Learn how to style tables and figures, as well as how to compose sections such as results, methods, introduction, and discussion.
- Discusses the peer-review process as well as ethical difficulties in scientific publishing.
- Discover how to avoid plagiarism, identify authorship, submit a manuscript, write a peer review, and avoid predatory journals.
- Learn how to write review papers, grants, recommendation letters, and personal essays.
- Learn how to work with the media, how to be interviewed, how to conduct an interview, and how to write about science for the general public.