Writing Scientific Articles: Getting Started on the Right Foot

This is a two-module interactive workshop that includes lessons, discussions, exercises, and intensive group work. Each module is 4 hours.
Before participating in the workshop, participants will be required complete a pre-workshop assignment intended to evaluate current knowledge and help prepare for further in-workshop exercises.

The first of the two modules focuses on the environment of scientific communications and on the standards that scientific journals require. The module is intended to help participants develop a perspective that will get them started on the right foot to successfully publishing their articles.

The second module focuses on building a logical, structured, and efficient process for creating an article that effectively communicates the key results of a study. During the module, participants will work together on a series of exercises in which they will put the principles into practice.

AGENDA

Pre-workshop assignment: Read a clinical study report summary and answer questions

Module one – The basics of scientific articles (Andrea Rossi)

• Introduction
• Review of the pre-workshop assignment
• The environment of scientific communication
• Guidelines
• The basics of scientific communication
• The reader-centred approach to writing

Module two – Organising your writing projects (Phil Leventhal)

• Using problem statements to develop a coherent concept for an article
• Selecting the data to present
• Expanding the problem statement into a concept outline to organize the article
• Identifying the target audience and selecting an appropriate target journal
• Writing an effective title
• Expanding the concept outline into a detailed outline and using reporting guidelines to help