Presenter Information: Dr. Yvonne Hung, Director and Graphos Coordinator from McGill Writing Centre
Talk Information: Despite our best intentions to knuckle down and write productively on a regular basis, competing demands and distractions - both personal and professional - can make it difficult to stick to a regular writing routine. Likewise, writing at the graduate level involves staking out new ground and positioning ideas within a broader research conversation. Within this scholarly context, students can benefit from bringing greater awareness to oneself as a writer, to one's writing project, and to one's decisions about the structure of a scientific paper with your audience in mind.
This presentation will introduce strategies for effective scientific writing at the graduate level in terms of habits of writing, how ideas can be organized within a manuscript, and considerations when shifting from a consumer of scientific knowledge to a contributor to research within a field.