Summing up

What’s left to do?

1. Printing leaflets and posters2. Finishing webpages3. Rehearsing oral presentation4. Revising thesis5. Writing an essay (2-2.5 pages)

• Scientific publishing• (Writing keystone exercises)

Printing leaflets and posters

• 1. Monday 18th May at lunch all posters and leaflet should be ready for printing! In It's learning or prior by memorystick.

2. Wednesday lunch we will get preliminary printings of posters and leaflets from LiU-tryck. You'll find them in Galaxen,

If necessary some revisions may take place. Most don't have to make any. Specific questions can also be put to LiU-tryck in A-house.

3. 8.00 Tuesday 26th of May is the very sharp deadline of the revised version leaflets and posters.

4. Thursday morning they will be printed!

5. Friday they will be part of your graduation!

Finishing webpages

• Deadline next Wednesday

• Questions?

Rehearsing oral presentation

• Use the comments you got on your first presentation!• Be careful when you prepare your slides.– Not too much in a slide– Not too many slides

• 25 min per presentation including questions and changing speakers. – 15-20 min presentation. – We will stop you after 20 min.

Revising thesis

• Not really part of this course

• Deadline: end week 23.

• Information in It’slearning how to go about. Which forms to fill in etc

• Note: Don’t forget to activiely apply for your exame.

Essay: education and reflection

• An essay: – improve and apply your writing skills

• An essay : 6000-8000 (including blanks) characters , 2-2.5 pages.

• A documentation of your writing process (see chapter 1): maximum 1500 characters (including blanks).

The essay• An essay : 6000-8000 (including blanks) characters , 2-2.5

pages.• Have a clear organization/structure with headings.

An essay about what you've achieved during your studies. Relate to your knowledge and skills prior this program. Relate to your expectations on the program and also as now becoming a professional biologist.

Write quite freely. This is an exercise in writing. Which also will make you aware of your achievements as a student.

Revision• Organize the ideas– Add and delete ideas– Arrange the idea in order

• Add content and details– Are there any gaps?

• To the reader…• What’s you’re style?– Tone appropriate for reader

• Formal, casual, persuasive, frantic..– Sentences, the phrases

• Get rid of some sentences, avoid redundancy (typical problem/error)

The writing process• A maximum 1500 character long (including blanks)

summary of your writing process. • What steps you’ve made, read chapter 1 again to refresh. • Briefly check other chapters. • How much workload on each step and notes on the

development of the manuscript. Keep notes as you proceed.

• Especially important is to revise your writing as you proceed!

Revising ideas

• List your ideas• Combine overlapping to specific ideas• Split too general ideas• Make an outline of the ideas• Do this at least three times

Revising content- a big job

• Prioritize content elements• Transitions between content – within paragraphs – between paragraphs– between sections

• Content development/how much detail– Where to add– What to add– Why it have to be there– Think of your audience, what’s relevant

Revising content- a big job

• Prioritize content elements– Within a paragraph or section

Thesis - claims

Main ideas

Specific support

Transition

Thesis - claims

Transition

Thesis - claims

Main ideas

Specific support

Transition

Thesis - claims

Main ideas

Specific support

Transition

Thesis - claims

Main ideas

Specific support

Transition

Specific support

Transition

Revising content- a big job

Transitions between content – within paragraphs – between paragraphs– between sections

• Signal your transition to the reader– By a word or phrase– Check that your actually making transitions

Revising content- a big job

• Prioritize content elements• Transitions between content – within paragraphs – between paragraphs– between sections

• Content development/how much detail– Where to add– What to add– Why it have to be there– Think of your audience, what’s relevant

Revising content- a big job

• More on: Content development/how much detail– Develop your ideas• Do not repeat with new words, add something or be

more specific– A way to be more specific: Choose examples• Discuss example, explain why it’s important and useful

with this specific example

Types of content

• Analysis: – how and why things are important and whit it

means and suggest• Other ideas– Avoid plagiarism, using other ideas incorrectly• Do check when ideas are others and check both correct

litterature and not plagiarizing• Check by marking and go back to reference for each

mark– Common knowledge, defined of audience

Revise for style

• Your audience – Define it, by a heading and a list a few names of

persons you know– Go back and test the different sections and

sentences, always referring to the audience• Clarity: Is it coherent and cohesive (understandable and

connected)– Organze phrases, get rid of some – check for independent clause, use : or ; (clause=sats sw)– Get rid of redundancy, repaeting words, phrases, ideas

Revise for style

• Clarity: Is it coherent and cohesive (understandable and connected)– Wordiness:

– Prepositional phrase, don’t start with it» The voice of the man is ..» The man’s voice is…

– Too many adjectives in the same sentence» Find more descriptive verb to get rid of adjectives» Or decide to leave some out, no relevance

– Passive voice. Avoid whenever posssible» The plane was flown by three officers» Three officers flew the plane

Finally

• Don’t make it more complicated than it is!• Short sentences• One message per sentence (in general)• Conclude now and then to keep it together• Make a statement, a body and a conclusion, over and

over again.• Use words that you are familiar with (otherwise

study when the word is used by others)• SIMPLIFY, BE CLEAR