Writing Your Literature Review Workshop for SCS Graduate Research students

We would like to invite SCS students to attend a tailored workshop on Writing Your Literature Review, delivered by Dr Davina Dadley-Moore.  This workshop is designed specifically for first-year science and medical PhD/Masters students. If you have not begun to write your literature review, have begun but are struggling, or would like to develop your writing skills and confidence, this workshop is for you. This is an interactive workshop that will involve activities, and you will have the opportunity to look at your own writing and learn how to improve it.

Topics covered in the 3 hour workshop

Part 1: The Big Picture

What is a literature review?

Why write one?

How do you start?

Main tasks in writing your literature review

Story and structure

Components other than text (references, figures and tables)

Part 2: Important Elements of Scientific Writing

Introductions and conclusions

Signposts

Paragraph structure

Scientific phrasing

Bio:

Dr Davina Dadley-Moore started her research career as an immunologist. After completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne and a postdoc at Stanford University, she swapped her pipette for a pen. For the next seven years, she worked with top scientists to illuminate their findings, as an editor at Nature, Nature Reviews and the Trends journals in London. Since returning home to Melbourne, she has worked as a freelance science and medical editor and trained researchers in the craft of science writing. She is a science editor and writer at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and is currently also Product Manager at NPG Language Editing, an editing service for scientists whose first language is not English.

Dates:

Students are to enrol into one of the following dates:

Workshop 1 Mon 30 Nov 1.30 - 5.00pm at Hudson Institute 27-31 Wright Street Clayton

Workshop 2 Mon 7 Dec 1.30 - 5.00pm at Hudson Institute 27-31 Wright Street Clayton

Enrolment:

No more than 15 students can attend each workshop. Please enrol online by Friday 23 October:

https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/mmcbs/

This is to allow time for information about each student to be collected.  Dr Dadley-Moore will then inform students on what to bring and will send you a short test so that she can assess your writing skills (see timeline below).

Rough time line:

Enrolment by: 23 Oct

Test sent out to students: 26 Oct

Test sent back to Davina by students: 30 Oct

NB: Davina on leave (11 Nov to 25 Nov)