Course description
There are two major methods of writing an article: i) just write it or ii) structure it first. Most people probably use a mixture of these two. This course shows how to keep the full text writing for later, instead, to concentrate on the structure. During this four-day course, you will be taken through the four major 'topics' of a scientific article: Background, Method, Results, and Discussion. We shall work on one specific topic each day. Examples will be provided but you will be encouraged to find also literature from your own “library”,
The course is designed to suit the reporting culture of medical quantitative (clinical and epidemiologic) studies. Although laboratory and quantitative studies often are organized differently, their principles are largely the same, making this course relatively/somewhat useful also for such studies. Transparent reviews (systematic, scoping etc.) also have the same elements but since their Methods section is special, people working on such manuscripts will receive separate workshop material on Day 2 (“Methods”).
The pedagogic approach is: Listen, understand, analyze, use. The course consists of lectures, workshops, individual work, and peer-review. There will be (reasonable) individual assistance from the course leader.
There are three requirements for this course:
- You will work on one of your manuscripts, so you must have determined its research objectives and methods in detail. It is not a requirement to have completed the analyses to structure a manuscript. In fact, it may be easier if these have not been done.
- At the latest one week before the course, read the instructions on Itslearning about an obligatory pre-course task.
- Make sure you are present from the very beginning.
Intended learning outcomes
At the end of this course, we expect you to be able to:
- understand the 'anatomy' of a scientific article
- structure your own scientific article
- review the work of others with some confidence.
Course fee
The course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled in Universities that have joined the Open market agreement and NorDoc
For other participants there is a course fee of:
DKK 3600
EUR 483