| Week Beginning | General Topic | Reading / Materials |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept | Peer-Review and the Structure of a Scientific Paper | Read Eloquent Science, chapters 1-4 |
| 30 Sept | Tutorial | |
| 07 Oct | Principles of Scientific Writing 1: Unity, Coherence | Read Eloquent Science, chapters 6–8 |
| 14 Oct | Tutorial |
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| 21 Oct | Principles of Scientific Writing 2: Concision, Precision | Read Eloquent Science, chapters 9–10 |
| 28 Oct | Reading Week | |
| 04 Nov | Tutorial |
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| 11 Nov | Creating and Describing Figures and Tables, Editing Your Writing | Read Eloquent Science, chapters 5, 11, 13, 21 |
| 18 Nov | Tutorial | Q/A about report |
| 25 Nov | How to Deliver Potent Presentation | Read Eloquent Science, chapters 24– 26 |
| 02 Dec | Tutorial | Final tutorial |
| 9 Dec | Report submission deadline 0900 Friday 13 Dec |
Report to be submitted to Blackboard
Your tutor may specify a different structure than below. Please follow their guidance.
- Report length: Number of words ≤ 2,000 including graphs/tables and excluding references;
- 2-4 figures will be typical. Figures and tables within the text are encouraged, but can also appear at the end of the report.
- Below is a suggested structure.
- Title: A clear, concise, informative, accurate, and possibly engaging title for your report
- Abstract: Either a specialist or generalist abstract [200 words]
- Introduction: Background, problem statement, response to the problem statement including the purpose of the report [400–500 words]
- Data and methods: [varies greatly]. Focus on general methods, not the exact technical details of how you made a figure in Python, or Excel.
- Results: [600–800 words]
- Discussion: [varies greatly]
- Conclusions: concise summary of the main results of the report [400–500 words]
- References: if any - not included in word count