Unit 1 Communicating as a Scientist
This first unit will help you understand what makes communication effective and will help you identify your purpose and analyze your audience in terms of its level of specialization. It then proposes basic strategies to address less specialized audiences and mixed audiences, whether orally or in writing.
1.1 Understanding Communication
1.2 Identifying Your Purpose and Audience
1.3 Writing or Speaking for Specific Audiences
1.4 Summary
1.5 Test Your Knowledge
1.6 Learning Activities
Unit 2 Writing Scientific Papers
This unit will help you select and organize a paper's content, draft it more effectively, and revise it efficiently. Among others, it offers advice on using verbs optimally, provides general rules for text mechanics (abbreviations, capitalization, hyphens, and so on), and points out frequent shortcomings for speakers of specific language groups.
2.1 Structuring Your Scientific Paper
2.2 Drafting Your Scientific Paper
2.3 Revising Your Scientific Paper
2.4 Advice for Specific Language Groups
2.5 Summary
2.6 Test Your Knowledge
2.7 Learning Activities
Unit 3 Writing Correspondence
This unit will help you write an effective first-contact e-mail, demonstrate your qualifications for a job in an application letter and résumé, and prepare clear, accurate, and concise memos and progress reports. In particular, it discusses how to select an appropriate tone for corresponding in English.
3.1 E-mail
3.2 Memos and Progress Reports
3.3 Job Letters
3.4 Résumés
3.5 Letters That Follow a Job Interview
3.6 Summary
3.7 Test Your Knowledge
3.8 Learning Activities
Unit 4 Giving Oral Presentations
This unit will help you select and organize the content of an oral presentation, create effective slides to support it, deliver the presentation effectively, and answer questions usefully. It also offers tips on how to deliver as a non-native speaker of English and how to handle stage fright and mishaps.
4.1 Structuring Your Oral Presentation
4.2 Creating Presentation Slides
4.3 Delivering Your Oral Presentation
4.4 Answering Questions
4.5 Summary
4.6 Test Your Knowledge
4.7 Learning Activities
Unit 5 Interacting During Conferences Sessions
This unit will help you create, promote, and present scientific posters effectively, chair a conference session or moderate a panel, and finally take part in a panel discussion. It includes advice on how to introduce and wrap up sessions, introduce speakers, and manage time.
5.1 Giving Poster Presentations
5.2 Chairing Sessions
5.3 Taking Part in a Panel Discussion
5.4 Summary
5.5 Test Your Knowledge
5.6 Learning Activities
Unit 6 Communicating in the Classroom
This unit will help you prepare, run, and evaluate your classroom sessions. As an alternative to mere lecturing, it focuses on defining learning outcomes, designing learning activities, and facilitating active classroom sessions.
6.1 Preparing Your Sessions
6.2 Running Your Sessions
6.3 Evaluating Your Sessions
6.4 Summary
6.5 Тest Your Knowledge
6.6 Learning Activities
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