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Pfizer - Taller de Escrita Cientifica Ethel Schuster and Haim Levkowitz

Agosto del 2018
Presentations

• Introduction
• How to Read Scientific Documents
• The Structure of a Paper
• Building your Corpus 
• Effective Writing
• Focus on Language  
• Corpus Linguistics
• Example iweb: step-by-step "solar energy" 
• Example iweb: step-by-step "study"
• Cover Letter
• Successful Presentations 

Resources

• Academic PhraseBank by John Morley 
• Polishing your Article in English: A Hands-on Approach 
• Four-letter Words and Finishing Touches

• MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online), database compiled by the US National Library of Medicine and accessible at PubMed 
• JAMA: For authors
• Reviews of Modern Physics - Guide
• Writing a Better Scientific Article 
• White Paper: How to Write and Publish? 

• Tons! See Resources for Technical Writers and Students (Celia M. Elliott)
• (More) Four-letter Words
• Writing Effective Abstracts
• Building Good Paragraphs

• Publishing your Research 101
• Author and Reviewer Resource Center
• Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers 
• How to get your papers rejected (or not) 
• "Meet the Editors" Event (USP-SC)  
• Articles in English 
• Software Applications to the Health Sector: SLR 

Annotation

• Survey of Annotation Tools for the biomedical literature  
• Assisted annotation of medical free text using RapTAT  
• Digital Tools for Researchers

 Books

• Writing Scientific Papers in English Successfully: Your Complete Roadmap by Schuster, Levkowitz, Oliveira (editors)
• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (see 4th Edition)
• The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
• How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (7th ed) by Robert Day and Barbara Gastel 
• Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers by Mimi Zieger
• Science Research Writing: A guide for Non-Native Speakers of English by Hilary Glasman-Deal
• Strategic Scientific and Medical Writing by Pieter H. Joubert

Corpora

• Brigham Young Corpora 
• iWeb
• Corpus of Contemporary American English
• Tutorials:
• COCA 01: Introduction to Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English
• COCA 02: Using Part-of-Speech Tags
• COCA 03: Collocations
• Coca Help Guide
• COCA Worksheet
• Collocations
• Components: Typical Introduction 
• How to Write an Abstract
• Student Sample Annotated Corpus
• Tools available online. All these were developed at NILC (USP-Sao Carlos):
  • Amadeus, tools to help non-native speakers of English write papers
  • Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in English)
  • Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in Portuguese)
  • CALESE, computer-aided tool for learning English
  • MAZEA, a tool for identification of the components of an abstract

Student's Corner 

• Breakdown of a Technical Paper
• Designing a Conference Poster
• How to Keep Lab Notebooks
• Comics: Grammar
• Other Collections of Online Tools
• Online Language Tools
• Intensive English Institute - Illinois

Corpus Resources

• Corpus Linguistics Resources

English Writing Resources

• Purdue Online Writing Lab 
• Ben Yagoda's links
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• The Elements of Clunk
• How not to write
• First do no Harm 

• Dictionaries
  

  • Cambridge Dictionaries Online

    Merriam-Webster Dictionary

• Punctuation
• Punctuation Matters, how to use hypen, n-dash and m-dash
  
• Punctuation and Footnotes
• Footnotes and Endnotes 


• For Scientists
• English Editing for Scientists: edanz
• Springer Exemplar: words in context

About Presentations

• Pressure to Perform

Scientific Writing in English: Techniques and Tools Corporacion Universitaria de la Costa (CUC)

Ethel Schuster and Haim Levkowitz 

Mayo y Julio 2016

• Part I: Introduction
• Part II: How to Read Scientific Documents
• Part III: The Structure of a Paper
• Part IV: Building your Corpus 
• Part V: Corpus Linguistics
• Part VI: Effective Writing
• Part VII: Cover Letter
• Part VIII: Focus on Language 
• Part IX: Successful Presentations 
• Sample Abstracts
• Academic Entrepreneurship (original)
• Academic Entrepreneurship (edited)
• Athletic Performance (original)
• Athletic Performance (edited)
• Agile Testing (original)
• Agile Testing (edited)
• Cosmovisions (original)
• Cosmovisions (edited)  

Resources

• Academic PhraseBank by John Morley 
• Polishing your Article in English: A Hands-on Approach 
• Four-letter Words and Finishing Touches

• Reviews of Modern Physics - Guide
• Writing a Better Scientific Article 
• White Paper: How to Write and Publish? 

• Tons! See Resources for Technical Writers and Students

• Publishing your Research 101
• Author and Reviewer Resource Center
• Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers 
• How to get your papers rejected (or not) 
• "Meet the Editors" Event (USP-SC)

Books

• Writing Scientific Papers in English Successfully: Your Complete Roadmap by Schuster, Levkowitz, Oliveira (editors)
• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (see 4th Edition)
• The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
• How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (7th ed) by Robert Day and Barbara Gastel 
• Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers by Mimi Zieger
• Science Research Writing: A guide for Non-Native Speakers of English by Hilary Glasman-Deal

Handouts

• Coca Help Guide
• COCA Worksheet
• Collocations
• Components: Typical Introduction 
• How to Write an Abstract
• Student Sample Annotated Corpus
• Tools available online. All these were developed at NILC (USP-Sao Carlos):
  • Amadeus, tools to help non-native speakers of English write papers
  • Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in English)
  • Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in Portuguese)
  • CALESE, computer-aided tool for learning English
  • MAZEA, a tool for identification of the components of an abstract

Scientific Writing in English: Techniques and Tools July 2015

Presentations 
Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr., June 30, 2015

• Scientific Writing: The Vision 

Ethel Schuster, July 2015

• Part I: Introduction
• Part II: The Structure of a Paper
• Part III: How to Read Scientific Documents
• Part IV: Building your Corpus 
  
• Part V: Corpus Linguistics
• Part VI: Language Issues
• Hands-on MAZEA
• All About Scipo-Farmacia
• Cover Letter  
• Additional Language Issues  

Resources

• Tools available online. All these were developed at NILC (USP-Sao Carlos):
  • Amadeus, tools to help non-native speakers of English write papers
  • Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in English)
  • Scipo-Farmacia, a tool for writing scientific papers in English (in Portuguese)
  • CALESE, computer-aided tool for learning English
  • MAZEA, a tool for identification of the components of an abstract
• Portal da Escrita Cientifica - USP Sao Carlos 

Academic PhraseBank by John Morley 

Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers 

How to get your papers rejected (or not) 

"Meet the Editors" Event (USP-SC)

Karie Friedman, Former Assistant Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics

• Polishing your Article in English: A Hands-on Approach 
• Four-letter Words and Finishing Touches

• Reviews of Modern Physics - Guide
• Writing a Better Scientific Article 
• White Paper: How to Write and Publish? 

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publications

Celia Elliot, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Tons! See Resources for Technical Writers and Students 

American Chemical Society (ACS) 

• Publishing your Research 101
• Author and Reviewer Resource Center

Books

• Writing Scientific Papers in English Successfully: Your Complete Roadmap by Schuster, Levkowitz, Oliveira (editors)
• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (see 4th Edition)
• The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
• How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (7th ed) by Robert Day and Barbara Gastel 
• Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers by Mimi Zieger
• Science Research Writing: A guide for Non-Native Speakers of English by Hilary Glasman-Deal

Handouts

• Coca Help Guide
• COCA Worksheet
• Collocations
• Components: Typical Introduction 
• IME Workshop
• How to Write an Abstract
• Student Sample Annotated Corpus

Student's Corner

• Breakdown of a Technical Paper
• Designing a Conference Poster
• How to Keep Lab Notebooks
• Comics: Grammar

More Resources

Other Collections of Online Tools

• Online Language Tools
• Intensive English Institute - Illinois

Corpus Resources

• Corpus Linguistics Resources 

Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos (USP)

• Servicios de biblioteca IFSC

Tecnicas de Escrita Cientifica - Additional Resources

Impact Factor/Journal Citation Reports

• ISI Web of Knowledge. Note: You have to be inside USP network or using a VPN for this site to work.

English Writing Resources

• Purdue Online Writing Lab 
• Ben Yagoda's links
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• The Elements of Clunk
• How not to write
• First do no Harm 

• Dictionaries
  

  • Cambridge Dictionaries Online

    Merriam-Webster Dictionary

• English corpus: 
• Use of Corpus - About 
• CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH 
• For help: COCA introduction 
• About collocates, examples, introduction 
• Tutorials:
• COCA 01: Introduction to Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English
• COCA 02: Using Part-of-Speech Tags
• COCA 03: Collocations

• Punctuation
• Punctuation Matters, how to use hypen, n-dash and m-dash
  
• Punctuation and Footnotes
• Footnotes and Endnotes 


• For Scientists
• English Editing for Scientists: edanz
• Springer Exemplar: words in context

About Presentations

• Pressure to Perform