The Vollum Writing Class is a professional science writing course open to OHSU graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and 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 four weeks, Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., and 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.
The sessions for 2020 are now live for registration, and the winter session begins January 8.
Access Compass to register (log in to Compass and search for Vollum Writing).
