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