Organiser: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Registration: Registration is open until 31 June 2020

 

Sponsor: Centre for Integrative Conservation and Environmental Education Centre of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS

 

 

About the workshop:  The writing workshop aims to teach the knowledge and skills needed to publish scientific papers in international journals. It will cover the entire process, from preparing to submitting a scientific research paper, and dealing with reviewer comments. The course will consist of on-line lectures, discussions, and one-to-one help with participants' own papers (via email).  

 

Day1: Introduction: modern scientific publishing and scientific writing overview; Literature searches.

Day2: Titles; Introductions; Abstracts

Day3: Methods; Results; Tables and Figures. 

Day4: Discussions; References, Supplementary Materials etc.

Day5: Writing scientific English; Manuscript submission; Responding to reviewers

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Requirements for applicants:  The workshop is targeted at young scientists from Chinese Universities or Research Institutes (PhD candidates and early career researchers) with limited previous experience of publishing scientific papers in international journals. 

 

Instructor: Professor Richard Corlett, PI of Biodiversity Research Group, Centre for Integrative Conservation of XTBG, Expert on terrestrial ecology and biodiversity conservation, plant-animal interactions, and the impacts of climate change.

 

Student number: not more than 30 students (20 with and 10 without manuscripts that will need help to improve during the workshop, respectively.)

* Manuscripts that will need help to improve during the workshop include draft manuscript or rejected papers that need to be re-written.

 

If you have any questions about the workshop, please email liujx@xtbg.org.cn,  and/or corlett@xtbg.org.cn

 

To apply, please visit https://www.wjx.top/jq/80758974.aspx