MBIO 490 - Scientific Communication

Graduate level overview of techniques for platform, poster and written scientific presentations. Emphasis will be on oral presentation delivery, proposal development, content organization and audience perspective They will also learn to reflect on critical selection and evaluation, and learn how to use and refer to sources in a scientific context. Basic computer and web skills. Writing scientific texts can be viewed as a process as well as a final product and the participants will be introduced to a theoretical understanding of the academic writing process