English: Researcher Development Writing Skills Workshop - Preparing Successful Poster Presentations (Native and Nonnative Postdoc, PhD and MPhil by RESEARCH Engineering ONLY)

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This is one in a series of five Scientific Writing Skills Workshops tailored to the needs of the PhD/PostDoc Engineering student.

• Preparing successful poster presentations (see topics covered section for more details)

The following workshops are also available:

• Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• Presenting your results and findings
• Working on the Discussions and Conclusions Sections
• What makes a good abstract and title?

• Native AND Non-Native PhD and PostDocs from the Department of Engineering
• Further details regarding Engineering Language Unit's eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 1

An opportunity for you to consider the design and content of posters. Have you ever attended/participated in a Poster Session? Which posters were of interest to you and why or why not? We will be evaluating a number of winning posters and discussing what made them most successful. If you have a poster of your own and would like feedback, or just want to know more about creating one, then this is the Workshop for you!

• To develop students’ awareness of the reader’s aims
• To write in a clearer and more concise way in order to communicate ideas successfully
• To Inform you about what it means to be a successful writer and the importance of context (e.g. who is your reader, what are your assumptions about their knowledge of the topic?)

• Workshops are ‘hands-on’ where students work with, and edit text from a variety of sources relevant to their specialist field.
• Students’ work-in-progress and papers they are reading are used wherever possible to develop their awareness of good writing and critical ability.
• Students are encouraged to work in groups and share ideas- from student feedback on these workshops, it has been noted that peer feedback was found to play a key role in their success.

Course syllabus is available

One two-hour session

One each term

• CLIC: Speaking skills: Fluency and Appropriacy
• CLIC: Speaking skills: Practising your presentations in English
• CLIC: Speaking skills: Pronunciation Skills
• English Focus on Writing - Non-native PhD and Postdoc, MPhil by Research students from the Department of Engineering
• English: Writing: The Basics of Writing: Your Strategy
• English Focus on Writing 3 - Session 7 (Nonnative Postdoc, PhD and MPhil by Research Engineering ONLY)
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Presenting your Results and Findings
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - What makes a good Abstract and Title?
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Working on the Discussion and Conclusions Sections
• English: Writing Skills Two week intensive (PhD Engineering ONLY)
• English: Writing: Technology assisted writing workshop
• English: Cultural Awareness
• English: Grammar for Speaking & Writing: Articles