The Vollum Writing Class is a 6-week professional science writing course open to OHSU graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty.
This class uses short lectures, class discussion, and workshop-style writing assignments to help researchers learn to write better papers and grants. Topics include:
- The basic elements of good scientific writing style, including sentence and document structure
- Insight into scientific conventions regarding grammar, punctuation, and usage;
- Strategies for revising
- Dealing with writer’s block and time management
- Best practices for writing introductions, results, discussions, and grant proposals
The class runs for six weeks, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 7, 2015. Six individual tutorials with the instructor are included. There are no prerequisites for this non-credit professional development course, but you should not take the class unless you have enough data to write about.
The course carries a fee of $500 per student (unless you are in a Vollum lab or part of certain graduate Ph.D. programs). Questions? Contact funding@ohsu.edu.
