Scientific writing

Every future Master's graduate, whether in a "Professional" or "Research" profile, must master the tools and codes of effective scientific written communication. Improving one's scientific writing skills is essential to enhance one's work and communicate it to one's peers, colleagues, clients...

The objective of this course is to improve scientific and technical writing skills. If part of the teaching focuses on the writing of a scientific article, the teaching is as much adapted to students with a "professional" profile as to those with a "research" profile, because all of them will be confronted with the writing of scientific or technical reports during their career.

Students will learn to present their scientific work in an effective, precise, clear and structured manner. Workshops "à la carte" will allow students to apply the notions seen in class in a concrete way. These workshops are organized in connection with the work to be done in the framework of other courses of their master's degree (UE Biblio Project, UE PIT Project, other). The course sessions are designed to encourage students to reflect on their own practices and to identify methods, tools and tips for improvement.

The evaluation is done in the form of continuous assessment with several exercises to be done in connection with the different course sequences.

The content of the module is structured around different sequences:

• Writing: general recommendations on the content and form of scientific and technical writing
• Problematize: identify the subject by analyzing it by answering eight basic questions (Why? What? Who? When? Where? How? Consequences?). Know how to reconstruct this analysis and deduce a structure to organize the document.
• Writing an article/report: the main elements of a scientific article or a report: Creating the "hooks": title, keywords, summary, key ideas.
• Illustrate: charts and maps

Application: in the form of a workshop in small groups (or individual meetings), several methods are proposed depending on the course: preparation of a bibliographic synthesis (problematization) or improvement of an existing piece of writing including a self-critique.