Scientific writing for scientists and engineers

This course is intended for scientists and engineers with an interest in improving their skills in writing scientific documents including journal papers, conference proceedings papers, abstracts, reports, theses, and proposals. The course will be of particular interest to researchers and graduate students as well as to university faculty who want to improve both their own writing and that of their students. It will address elements of good writing in science and engineering, including standard practices, terminology, and formatting. It will teach attendees how to present information using properly structured sentences, paragraphs, sections, and chapters and how to organize experimental results and analysis in a format suitable for publication in the scientific literature as well as in reports, theses, etc.