Course Materials

Blogs
https://thesiswhisperer.com/
https://patthomson.net/
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/writingforresearch/
https://medium.com/@write4research

http://www.raulpacheco.org/blog/Writing Tools
Academic Phrases Manchester University
Useful Phrases Wallwork book
Question Tool Introduction
QT for the Discussion
Prepare your writing- Tiny Steps
Transitional Words and Phrases
COREQ: Questions for Reporting Qualitative Research
Outlining your paper
Templates for observational studies
How to start and end the discussion
Outline 1 Main questions
Outline 2 More detailed questions
Outline 3 Short answersWebsites
The Swales Moves Website
The Manchester Phrasebank
Academic Phrasebank
The Writer’s Diet
Readability Formulas
The Hemingway App
Look Through your Text – Voyant-tools.org
Words per Sentence Tool 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handouts Online course 
Lecture 1 The Writing Process
Lecture 2 The Writing Process
Lecture 3 Working with Questions
Lecture 4 Story Lines Intro and Disc
Lecture 5 Topic – Key – Paragraph structure 
Lecture 6 Cohesion
Lecture 7 The passive voice
Lecture 9 Noun style
Lecture 10 Hedging and boosting
Handout Stylish Academic Writing
Lecture 12 Grammar Pitfalls About science writingBoost your GP with AI
Prepare your writing- Tiny Steps
How to Write Your First Research Paper
The Joy of Writing
How to Overcome Writer’s Block
Time management Tips for writing   
How to Write a Literature Review
How to Write a Systematic Review
How to read a review paper
The Abstract 
Writing Cover Letters for Scientific Manuscripts

Notes on Writing a Paper
Making Tables and Figures
Ten Principles
Helen Sword: Stylish Academic Writing
Summary Writing Tips October 2019
Reader English For Publication
How to Write a paper_George M Hall BMJ
A checklist for improving abstracts 
Reading Tips
Metaphors in Science
Writing a qualitative research paper

How to start and end the discussion

Articles 
1. Plenty of Moustaches
2. Happiness in your Network 
3. Essay: The Curse of Knowledge (by Steven Pinker)
4a  The Darwin Awards full  text
4b The Darwin Awards I-M-R  
5. Use of Positive and Negative Words in Science
6. Impact of Spin (Boutron)
7. Spin in Published Biomedical Literature (Chiu)
8. BMJ Emoji in medical literature 
9. Sparse MRI (style best practice)
10..No time to die:  James Bond

 

 

 

 

Lecture Classroom Cohesion and Flow