Description and contextualization of the subject

Efficient communication has become an essential soft skill for a successful scientific career. This course aims at providing the necessary techniques and concepts for efficient oral and written communication at different stages of scientific career development.

The lessons will cover such important concepts as storytelling, presentation soft and hard skills, effective scientific writing and preparation for interviews or grant/fellowship applications, among others.

The course addresses the knowledge of rhetorical structure and linguistic features at the syntactic, morphological and lexical level that characterize the genres most used in academic communication in the scientific field: abstracts and scientific articles. It is about facilitating the reading and understanding of this type of texts and providing the skills that enable the student to write abstracts and articles on topics related to their area of scientific interest.

The course is organized into a set of theoretical lectures combined with practical lessons to consolidate and practice the learned concepts. By the end of the course, each student should become a better presenter, capable of identifying the communication tools needed to communicate effectively in different situations, either ata conference, at a group meeting, at a job interview, or writing scientific documents.

Learning outcomes of the subject

Being the English language the vehicle of scientific communication worldwide in the academic field, this subject contributes transversally to support all the subjects that make up the master's degree, having as its final objective not only the training to the student to be able to integrate as an active participant in the field of scientific communication, but to facilitate the consultation, reading, analysis and evaluation of articles and abstracts related to the subjects of their specialty, since the student is allowed to select the texts of those topics that may be more interesting for their research training.



This course aims at providing the necessary techniques and concepts for efficient oral and written communication at different stages of scientific career development.



By the end of the course, each student should become a better presenter, capable of identifying the communication tools needed to communicate effectively in different situations, either at a conference, at a group meeting, at a job interview, or writing scientific documents.

Temary

BLOQUE I. ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1.1. SCENIC FEAR

1.2. VOICE CONTROL AND BODY LANGUAGE

1.3. THEATER-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR EFFECTIVE ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1.4. STORYTELLING IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

1.5. PPT AND OTHER FORMATS FOR ORAL PRESENTATION

1.6. POSTER PRESENTATIONS



BLOQUE II. WRITING (AND READING) SKILLS

2.1. WRITING IS STORY-TELLING.

2.2. STRUCTURE OF A STORY. THE LORD OF THE RINGS, JAMES BOND AND MEMENTO.

2.3. THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES (I)

2.4. THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES (II)

2.5. INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND PARAGRAPHS

2.6. SENTENCES AND WORDS¿ AND GOOGLE TRANSLATE!

2.7. FIGURES

2.8. STRUCTURE OF A MASTER THESIS



BLOQUE III. PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR SCIENTIFIC CAREER DEVELOPMENT

3.1. CURRICULUM VITAE

3.4. PREPARING GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIP PROPOSALS



BLOQUE IV. USE OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE MANAGER PROGRAMS

3.1. REFERENCE MANAGER PROGRAMS

Bibliography

Basic bibliography

Cargill, M and O¿Connor, P., 2013. Writing scientific research articles: strategy and steps. John Wiley&Sons.

Greene, A. E., 2013. Writing science in plain English. University of Chicago Press

Hofmann, A.H., 2014. Scientific writing and communication : paprs, proposals, and presentations. Oxford University Press.

Swales, J.M. and Feak, C.B., 2004. Academic writing for graduate students: Essential tasks and skills (Vol. 1) University of Michigan Press.

Day, Robert A.. How to write and publish a scientific paper / by Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel. - 7th ed. Santa Barbara, California [etc.] :Greenwood, cop. 2011