Scientific Writing - Virtual Workshops
Scientific texts are the central medium for researchers to communicate and document research results. In addition, writing longer, coherent texts is a central, professionally qualifying skill.
As part of the PhysWrite project funded by the Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching in the Freiraum 2022 sponsors programme, 8 virtual subject-specific workshops for doctoral candidates and postdocs in physics have been created.
Dr Michael Rüsing uses examples from his own writing practice to show how to approach a writing project, what you should pay attention to in the individual chapters and what you can do if you get stuck. In addition to the videos, this page also contains links to the papers used, so that the individual steps guided in the videos can be followed in the final product.
Contact us
Office: P8.3.011
Phone: +49 5251 60-4644
E-mail: michael.ruesing@uni-paderborn.de
Graduate Program/Nachwuchsförderung
Office: P10.1.134
Phone: +49 5251 60-4579
E-mail: anna.bauer@uni-paderborn.de
Downloads
Paper und Texte, die in den Workshops als Beispiele benutzt werden.
Part 0 - Before you start
This workshop provides a brief overview of the workshop series, its objectives and content.
Part 1 - About Writing Papers
Part 1 gives an introduction to the topic of writing and deals in particular with the motivation for writing papers, the typical structure of a paper, as well as the differences and similarities to theses or conference presentations.
Part 2 - How to plan your writing - Tell a story!
In order to write successfully, good planning of the structure and line of argument is essential. This workshop explains how to identify a unique selling point and plan a paper based on the results.
Part 3 - Let's Write: The abstract
This video explains how to write an abstract effectively.
Part 4 - Let's Write: Introduction and conclusion
This workshop explains what role the introduction and summary play in the line of argument and how to write them effectively.
Part 5 - Let's write: Materials and methods
This workshop deals with the role and creation of the method chapter.
Part 6 - Let's write: Results and discussion
This video gives tips on how to effectively write the results chapter based on the storyline created in Part 2.
Part 7 - How to deal with writer's block
The last part deals with some typical challenges that make writing difficult and how to overcome these challenges.
