Writing courses & workshops
In 2009, Text and Training launched its first scientific writing course for medical PhD candidates. Ever since, the course has been highly appreciated by residents and researchers in teaching hospitals all over the Netherlands.
The participants particularly value the interactive nature of the course and the practical applicability of its content. In six sessions, we cover everything from setting up the overall structure of a paper to academic writing in English, English sentence structure, effective argumentation and composing submission letters and rebuttals.
For the biopharmaceutical department of Leiden University, I also developed tailor-made writing workshops for master students. The insights I gained from teaching these students to write research proposals and reports recently resulted in a full-fletched writing course for biopharma researchers and PhD candidates.
Each course is supported by a syllabus with exercises and example sentences from manuscripts in the same area of science. Also, each participant receives detailed personal feedback on each section of the manuscript, which is developed step by step during the course. Last but not least, participants are trained to give each other feedback based on what they learned in the course. In that way, they can continue to support each other in writing their manuscripts long after the course has ended.
