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Publishing Academic Papers Workshop

April 20, 2015   Filed under News, Popular  

If you are at the University of Manchester, you can sign up to attend my day-long workshop called “Publishing Academic Papers”. It runs 5-6 times a year. The complete workshop schedule can be found here. This workshop covers: Why publish? How do I publish? How do peer review, editors, and journals work? Is my science […]

How to Get Your PhD Published: Workshop for Saudi Students Club in Manchester

April 20, 2015   Filed under Featured, News  

Eloquent Science will be presenting a workshop at the Saudi Students Club of Manchester on Saturday 25 April 2015 at the Samuel Alexander Arts Theatre on “How to get your PhD published”. The workshop will last from 11 a.m. to about 4 p.m. (Image source: https://twitter.com/ksamcr/status/589967613645697025/photo/1)

Eloquent Science Workshop in Innsbruck

April 20, 2015   Filed under News  

No April Fools this year! Eloquent Science was on hand at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Innsbruck, to present an afternoon workshop on scientific publishing and writing. Thanks to host Prof. Alexander Gohm!

New resource for teaching students how to find, read, and use the literature

April 15, 2015   Filed under Blog, Featured, Resources, Writing  

The UK Higher Education Academy just published our second report in the series How to Succeed at University in GEES Disciplines: Enhancing Student’s Information Literacy Skills. (GEES is Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.) I wrote this with coauthor Rich Waller at Keele University. Contents include finding and assessing scientific literature, critical reading, citing sources and […]