Training Workshop on Scientific Writing and Visit of the Vice Provost to the Center

     

February 14, 2019

The India Research Center conducted an all-day teaching workshop on ‘Basics of Scientific Writing’ that focused on improving writing skills of PhD candidates, research scholars, post doctoral fellows, and students from academic and research institutes.

Dr. Mark C. Elliott, vice provost for international affairs and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at Harvard University, opened the teaching workshop with a keynote address that aimed at sensitizing the students to the importance of scientific writing. Dr. Elliott shared his own experiences of preparing research findings for publication and how such teaching modules can be used to learn methods for writing scientific literature. 

Dr. Sonal Jhaveri delivered five teaching modules which included scientific methods for writing the following sections: introduction, methods, results and illustrations, discussion, and title and abstract. Dr. Jhaveri also engaged the students in interactive discussions and applied exercises, and provided feedback to researchers working on papers for publication.