Academic Writing Workshops with Kali Tal

Course description

We are happy to offer selected inputs by Kali Tal for our PhD students. They are organized by the University library of Bern and take place online via zoom. Please register below.

3 September 2024, 13:00 – 16:00: Organizing Your Scientific Paper: Note-taking and Outlining for Success
This workshop covers the organizational skills you need to write as you do science, beginning with recommendations, tracking literature, taking and organizing notes, and sorting your notes thematically into the appropriate sections of your paper. The course also covers outlining—an essential skill for writing while you do science and one that English native speakers use as the basis for constructing all their papers. You will come out of this course with a clear organizational plan and the skills to execute it. (3-hours, highly interactive)

5 November 2024, 13:00 – 14:30: Citing and Writing
Have you ever been confused about when to cite and how to cite other people’s work and ideas? Do you want to know how to cite (and not cite) with the new AI tools? Find out in this short workshop, which will introduce you to principles and resources.

3 December 2024, 13:00 – 17:00: Supervising Master’s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations: A Proven Method for Ensuring Your Students’ Success
As a faculty member, you may have received little or no training in how to supervise the writing of a Master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, and so you probably learned by trial-and-error. But there is a systematic way to approach supervision. This course will introduce you to tried-and-tested methods of organizing the writing process so that you can guide your students to produce high-quality manuscripts at a swift pace while working together harmoniously.
This course is also suitable for PhD students who are supervising Master students.

Learning objectives

Obtain the theory of writing scientific manuscripts

Lecturer

Kali Tal, PhD

Participants

University of Basel PhD students of the Faculty of Medicine and of Swiss TPH.

Workload & credits

no ECTS, stand-alone input sessions in a variety of length
In the framework of ‘Meet to Write‘, the sessions can count as ‘expert input’ for ECTS (learning contract required).