Scientific Writing

Blekinge Institute of Technology

The objective of this course is to support doctoral students at BTH in the process of reading and reviewing academic work (conference, workshop, and journal publications). Moreover, the goal is to learn the students how to write good rejoinders of their own papers and work with reviewers and editors of academic conferences and journals.

The course includes five seminars where different aspects of reading, reviewing, and preparing a rejoinder are discussed and examples are provided. Moreover, the course contains two assignments where students show the ability to review a research paper and prepare a rejoinder to a research paper.

 Knowledge and understanding

• Knowledge and understanding of the review process in academia
• Knowledge and understanding of the rebuttal process in academia

 Skills and Abilities

• Ability to time-efficiently read research articles
• Ability to time-efficiently review an assigned paper and prepare constructive comments
• Ability to prepare a good rejoinder and address the reviewers’ comments on your own submissions
• Ability to critically review your own research articles

Judgement and approach

• Judge the effort and strategies needed for writing a good rejoinder
• Judge the effort required when acting as a reviewer to a paper and the expected level of feedback

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