Monday 23 March 2015

Upcoming Workshops - Writing and Communications

Please find below details of upcoming training workshops on Writing and Communications. The workshops will be delivered by Dr Zhila Bahman, a lecturer of communication and writing programs in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Please contact Zhila if you have any queries. .

Note:Students who register for "Academic Writing" must attend all three sessions (1, 2, 3). Academic Writing (2 and 3) are  the continuation of Academic Writing (1) and the same group of students must attend the workshops.


MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE
Wednesday 22 April:  PhD Thesis Structure
LOCATION: Surgery Seminar Room, Level 5, Block E MMC
TIME: 11.00am-1.00pm
Bookings: https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/mmcbs/
TIME: 2.00pm-4.00pm
Bookings for Academic writing 1, 2 and 3: https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/mmcbs/
TIME:11.00am-1.00pm
LOCATION:MIMR Level 3 Board Room A&B, 27-31 Wright Street (next to Monash Medical Centre)
TIME: 12.00pm-2.00pm


Wednesday 22 April:  Academic Writing (1)
LOCATION: Surgery Seminar Room, Level 5, Block E MMC
Friday 24 April:  Academic Writing (2)
LOCATION: Surgery Seminar Room, Level 5, Block E MMC
Thursday 30 April  Academic Writing (3)

CLAYTON CAMPUS
Tuesday 24 March: Scientific Writing (1)
LOCATION: Room 104, 19 innovation Walk, Clayton
TIME: 2pm-4pm

Friday 27 March: Scientific Writing (2)
LOCATION: Room 104, 19 innovation Walk, Clayton
TIME: 10am-12pm

Monday 30 March: Scientific Writing (3)
LOCATION: Room 104, 19 innovation Walk, Clayton
TIME: 10am-12pm

Tuesday 31 March: PhD Thesis Structure
LOCATION: G10, 15 Innovation Walk, Clayton
TIME: 1Pm-3pm

Tuesday 14 April: Scientific Writing (1)
LOCATION: Room H10,  Building 11, Menzies Building, Clayton
TIME: 9am-11am

Thursday 16 April: Scientific Writing (2)
LOCATION: G19, 15 Innovation Walk, Clayton
TIME: 9.30am -11.30am


PhD Thesis and its Structure
This workshop will provide an introduction to PhD thesis and how to write one.
In this workshop students will:
·      Learn about different types of PhD thesis structures (overall structure of thesis)
·      Learn how to prepare an outline
·      Learn about the factors that must be thought about before writing a thesis
o   Audience/reader
o   Length
o   Comprehensiveness/complexity
o   Purpose
·      Learn about preparation and planning
·      Learn about the notion of writing
·      Learn how to avoid plagiarism in their writing

Scientific Writing (1, 2, 3)
Writing a PhD thesis might not be an easy task for all students. Even though students know they need to use a language which is different from their own, they may not know what sort of language to use in writing a thesis.
This workshop will provide an introduction to the linguistic resources and conventions of medical texts as an academic discourse.
Objectives
This workshop attempts to:
·      raise awareness of the type of language used in medical texts.
·      show how different linguistic resources make thesis writing clearer.
·      represent specific features of language used in academic/medical texts.
·      identify language conventions and learn how to use them to express ideas explicitly and clearly in medical texts.
·      raise awareness of how to use language to evaluate previous work, theories, and research.

·      show how linguistic conventions are used in making a judgement. 

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