"Succinct Scientific Writing" Online Course
Whether your team writes for the FDA, colleagues, the public, or a client, we’ll teach them how to convey—effectively and with confidence—the essence and nuances of your work. Whether they write scientific reports, lab reports, journal articles, deviation reports, or SOPs, we'll show them more effective ways to tackle and write those documents.
Our convenient, interactive eight-module online scientific writing course uses critical thinking as its foundation and provides practical strategies to help your team plan, write, and revise any scientific document.
And if online scientific writing courses aren’t your thing, we have customized onsite workshops and webinars, tailored to meet your needs.
This online course is SCORM 1.2-, SCORM 2004-, and AICC-compliant; each module takes roughly 30 minutes to complete.
Features
- Voiced lectures
- A professional editor (Options 2 and 3)
- Hurley Write Cheat Sheets (Options 2 and 3)
- A copy of the Hurley Write eBook, Writing Strategies For Corporate America
- Knowledge checks
- Take-away tips
- Writing options (Options 2 and 3)
- Written feedback on submitted writing (Options 2 and 3)
- Certificate of completion
- One online video-chat session with your editor per module (Option 3)
And if online scientific writing courses aren’t your thing, we have customized onsite workshops and webinars, tailored to meet your needs.
Topics
Module 1: Developing a Rhetorical Strategy
- Targeting your reader
- Developing an effective writing strategy
- Presenting a positive image through writing
- Ensuring readability
Module 2: Planning and Writing the Scientific Document
- Organizing the document to meet reader needs
- Using outlines and other prewriting strategies
- Organizing sentences, paragraphs, and documents for greatest effect
- Types of organizational strategies
Module 3: Being Precise and Concise
- Creating flow
- Using language to be precise and concise
- Emphasizing appropriately
- Avoiding verbosity
- Avoiding language “traps”
- Making your writing more emphatic and readable
Module 4: Using Readability Studies to Write Effective Sentences and Paragraphs
- Emphasizing appropriately
- Helping readers make sense of the information
- Using readability techniques to strengthen your prose
- Structuring sentences and paragraphs for greatest impact
Module 5: Using Charts, Tables, and Graphs Effectively
- Understanding how readers use figures, graphs, and charts
- Making your figures, graphs, and charts persuasive
- Using color and other guidelines
Module 6: Writing the Components of the Scientific Paper
- Writing the sections most efficiently
- Determining the information to include in each section
- Capturing the reader’s attention
- Writing compelling copy
Module 7: Writing the Supplementary Components
- Writing an effective abstract
- Writing a compelling and accurate Introduction
- Including other elements