FDS3102 Writing Scientific Articles 5.0 credits
This course is designed for doctoral students and other reserachers who want to develop their skills in writing advanced, clear and precise scientific English.
Apply for the course via the links at KTH Language and Communication. Please apply before you are admitted and registered on the course in Ladok. Language and Communication will administer the admission process before the course starts.
Course fee.
To a great extent, this course is based on discussions and peer reviews of the participants' own article drafts. It is therefore important that you have an article underway to work on during the course. To complete the course, you book an appointment with your teacher to discuss your finished article. This tutorial can take place anytime after the final course date (no deadline).
Information for research students about course offerings
The course is offered every term. To see the current schedule and the online application form, please follow the link above!
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Application
For course offering
Autumn 2024 Start 26 Aug 2024 programme students
Application code
50836
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Analysis and discussion of research papers, especially within the student’s own research field, with a focus on rhetorical strategies, the common practice of the research field, and structure and language.
Short written assignments, such as a project proposal or similar text type with relevance to the research career
Work on own drafts for a forthcoming scientific publication
Discussion of other course participants’ drafts, and reflection on the peer review process
Exercises in scientific English, for instance regarding sentence structure, grammar and vocabulary.
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- adapt the content and structure of scientific research papers according to audience and purpose, and justify their choices
- apply rhetorical strategies typical for research papers in STEM fields, especially in their own discipline
- apply effective writing strategies in order to compose clear and precise text in English
- critically review and suggest changes to scientific texts written by others, considering e.g. audience, purpose, structure and language, and use others' feedback to improve their own text
in order to
- produce scientific research papers in STEM in English for publication in relevant journals.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Doctoral students, postdocs, researchers.
Recommended prerequisites
It is important that students have come so far in their doctoral education that they have results to write about. The course is unsuitable for students in their first term of studies
Equipment
Literature
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- INL1 - Written assignment, 5.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Other requirements for final grade
75% attendance requirement, and all written assignments passed.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
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Supplementary information
It is important that doctoral students who apply have come so far in their studies that they have results about which to write during the course The course is not appropriate for doctoral students during their first term of studies.