OVERVIEW

Many foreign authors find it difficult to produce an English manuscript for international journals in a style acceptable for publication. If the  language is poor, difficult to understand, or includes major faults, the paper is often deemed unacceptable because it would require considerable editing .  What is more, a weak style of the manuscript may cast a shadow on the scientific soundness of its results and the fairness of its discussion and conclusions. 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To learn the essentials of technical writing that are needed to produce a scientific text in English.

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The video lectures address the common grammatical errors of morphology and syntax that are often encountered while editing manuscripts written by Italian authors.  Specific areas include the use of pronouns, punctuation and dangling participles.  Next come specific issues of technical writing, such as abbreviations, units of measure, and choice of standard scientific terms. A video lecture is dedicated to the different types of scientific publications and the logical sequence of presentation of the work done in the sections of the article. Finally, practical examples of text editing are used to deal with finer points of style, such as how to organize the text in paragraphs, and how to avoid redundancy, elegant variation, or ambiguous phrasing.

TEACHING METHODS

Video lectures, additional resources

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Scientific Writing, Grammar, and Style

 Scientific Journals

 Layout of a Scientific Article

 Grammar

 Sentence Fragments

 Comma Splice

 Colons &  Semicolons

Hyphen

 Fahrenheit vs Celsius

 British vs American Spelling

 Units of Measurement

 Style

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

All the teaching material is in Aulaweb

LESSONS

LESSONS START

March 2017

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Multiple-choice test

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Multiple-choice test