В свободном доступе материалы курса "Writing in the Sciences", прочитанного в 2012 г., вы можете самостоятельно прослушать все лекции, выполнить все задания - и (в результате) - научитесь грамотно писать научные статьи на английском языке.
About the instructor: Kristin Sainani (née Cobb) is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University and also a health and science writer. After receiving an MS in statistics and PhD in epidemiology from Stanford University, she studied science writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has taught statistics and writing at Stanford for a decade and has received several Excellence in Teaching Awards from the graduate program in epidemiology.
Dr. Sainani writes about science for a range of audiences. Her stories appear in: Stanford magazine,Stanford Medicine magazine, and Biomedical Computation Review. She authors the health column Body News for Allure magazine. She is also the statistical editor for the journal Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; and she authors a statistics column, Statistically Speaking, for this journal.
Course schedule and assignments:
- Week 1 (September 24-30): Principles of effective writing (cut the clutter)
Assignment 1: editing practice, due Sunday, September 30 - Week 2 (October 1-7): Principles of effective writing (verbs)
Assignment 2: editing practice, due Sunday October 7 - Week 3 (October 8-14): Crafting better sentences and paragraphs
Assignment 3: editing practice, due Sunday October 14 - Week 4 (October 15-21): Organization; and streamlining the writing process
Assignment 4: FIRST PAPER, due Sunday October 21 - Week 5 (October 22-28): The format of an original manuscript
Assignment 5: PEER EDITING, due Sunday October 28 - Week 6 (October 29-Nov. 4): Reviews, commentaries, and opinion pieces; and the publication process
Assignment 6: SECOND PAPER, due Sunday November 4 - Week 7 (November 5-11): Issues in scientific writing (plagiarism, authorship, ghostwriting, reproducible research)
Assignment 7: PEER EDITING, due Sunday November 11 - Week 8 (November 12-18): How to do a peer review; and how to communicate with the lay public
Assignment 8: Revisions of papers 1 + 2, due Sunday November 18
Course textbook: The course has no required textbook, but students may benefit from reading:
- On Writing Well, William Zinsser
- The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
- Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale
- Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers, Mimi Zeiger
- Clinical Chemistry series on scientific writing:
http://www.aacc.org/publications/clin_chem/ccgsw/Pages/default.aspx#
