CC-Workshop "Writing Journal Articles"

Career Center Workshop

  • Date: Jan 13, 2023
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Tomoko Kurihara
  • Tomoko grew up in the US, Japan and the UK. She studied Anthropology at University College London and completed her PhD research in Anthropology and Sociology of Japan at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. After gaining postdoctoral research experience at London School of Economics and Cambridge University, she worked in the automotive industry as an intellectual property manager. Tomoko has published a monograph among other writings. Since 2016, she has been teaching academic writing at the Sprachenzentrum, University of Greifswald, to early-career researchers. She also offers courses in Japanese. As a Japanese to English translator she has contributed to BBC documentaries.
  • Location: online
  • Room: Zoom
  • Host: Career Center
  • Contact: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
You have to write a journal article or thesis but don’t know where to start?

Registration via https://events.gwdg.de/event/301/


Learning to organise your information in a conventional way using conventional language is the most straightforward way to producing comprehensible writing. This workshop will help you understand the structure of a typical article/thesis: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion/Conclusion. Each section will be considered in turn by looking at the type of information included and the kind of sentences and vocabulary used to convey that
information. This knowledge will then be placed in your disciplinary context by studying good examples of the kind of writing you would like to produce. As many conventions in research writing are common to all disciplines and at all career levels, my workshop is open to all individuals with the motivation to improve their writing. Simply apply what you learn here to writing in your own discipline.


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