Schedule for Writing Scientific English as a Foreign Language

							Schedule for Writing Scientific English as a Foreign Language
Spring 2009, 3 ECTS points, 9 weeks
Tuesdays 14.15 (academic quarter) to 16.00 with 15 min. coffee break.

       Date       Week     Title                           Instructor

1      3 Feb      6        Introduction to IMRAD           Terese Bergfors
                           Titles, Abstracts, Hedge
                           words, Conjuncts,
                           Wordiness
2      10 Feb     7        The structure of a scientific   Karin Carlson
                           article
3      17 Feb     8        English: the main language      Roberta Aplin-Roos
                           problems
4      24 Feb     9        Analysis of what makes a        David van der Spoel
                           good figure
5      3 Mar      10       The structure of the article,   Karin Carlson
                           continued.
                           How to prepare the Tables
                           and Figure legends
6      10 Mar     11       More English problems           Roberta Aplin-Roos
                           Analysis of the writing
                           exercises.
7      17 Mar     12       The 10 most common              Terese Bergfors
                           errors in papers.
8      24 Mar     13       Ethical issues in scientific    Stefan Eriksson
                           writing: the fine line
                           between misconduct and
                           good practice.
9      31 Mar     14       The editorial and referee       Terese Bergfors
                           process.
                           Couse Evaluation.
Week 15 is Easter. 
This update 21 November 2008.