Where: Bldg. 9 Classroom 3131 ≤ 42
Credit: 4
Description
Improve your scientific writing skills
What is the purpose of a scientific article? Is it the mere presentation or rather communication of information and thought?
An article describing a great scientific discovery is useful when a large majority of the reading audience accurately perceives what the author had in mind. Therefore, to improve our writing skills, we must understand how readers go about reading and interpreting texts. Such an understanding is vital for young scientific writers to ensure that their work is well received by the scientific community.
A 4-days workshop to improve your writing skills
During this workshop, attendees will explore how scientific articles are constructed and interpreted, how research findings are presented, and how scientific arguments are developed. Participants will learn to critically engage with the scientific literature, to efficiently read and analyze, to distinguish between our own work and previous work, and to cite and report the work of others responsibly and accurately. Over the course of 4 sessions, we will read scientific articles and write informal critical responses in a dynamic classroom setting. We will also construct arguments about research literature, first in the form of short critical review of research articles, then in longer reviews of research in fields related to their own project.
In summary, this 4-days workshop aims at:
- Improving our understanding of scientific writing
- Developing writing strategies for working effectively with colleagues
- Writing critically and effectively about scientific articles in area of research
- Increasing our experience in writing and discussing scientific documents.
We value your feedback and welcome any comments you may have to help us improve our programs. Make sure you submit the survey after you have attended this event!
Umair Bin Waleed
Umair bin Waheed is a KAUST alumni and a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University. Since finishing his postdoc in 2017, Umair has been at the College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, KFUPM as Assistant Professor. In addition to conducting scientific research, Umair has always been curious about communicating scientific findings. During his time as a postdoc at Princeton, he worked with the Princeton Writing Program (PWP) as a Writing in Science and Engineering Fellow under the mentorship of Judy Swan. He received intensive training in teaching writing at the PWP. Later he taught courses on scientific writing to graduate students from across disciplines at Princeton. Encouraged by the positive feedback from his students, Umair now conducts workshops helping students across different universities to effectively communicate their scientific discoveries through writing.
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