Upcoming Workshops - Writing and Communications

Workshops in Academic Writing and How to Structure your PhD Thesis are available - bookings are essential.

If you have any questions please contact Dr Zhila Bahman, a lecturer of communication and writing programs in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

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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 4 types of PhD thesis structures (overall structure of thesis and in particular the structure of literature review)

• Learn how to prepare an outline

• Learn about the factors that must be thought about before writing a thesis

• Learn about preparation and planning

• Learn about the notion of writing 

• Learn how to avoid plagiarism in their writing

LOCATION: G19 meeting room, 15 Innovation Walk

DATES: This workshop will be run on Wednesday 25th March and 1^st April

TIME: 2pm - 4pm

Bookings essential:  

For 25^th March https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/fmnhsphdtp/view/126227/

For 1^st April https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/fmnhsphdtp/view/126228/

Academic Writing

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. 

This workshop will: 

• 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. 

LOCATION: G19 meeting room, 15 Innovation Walk

DATE: Wednesday 8^th April 2015

TIME: 2pm - 4pm

Bookings essential at:  https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/fmnhsphdtp/view/126229/