Students strengthen their scientific communication skills with a focus on writing skills in preparation for their master’s thesis. The structure, content, and style of the scientific manuscripts are addressed. Core concepts are taught using a combination of lectures, small-group exercises, and written essays, for which students receive extensive personalized feedback. In the journal club, primary scientific articles are discussed.

Students will

• understand the scientific language in English and learn to evaluate results presented in publications. Specific key skills that are acquired include recognizing the essential components and writing particularities of each section of a primary research article (abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion), effectively writing scientific texts (paraphrasing, flow, grammatical specificities, etc.), designing clear and informative figures, appropriately referencing scientific literature (in-text and bibliography), and critically analysing and discussing primary scientific articles in a group setting.