Brieflands short courses on reference management with EndNote, typesetting with LaTeX, translating scientific articles into English, and preparing a resume or CV.
Workshop archive
Research Skills and Tools Workshops
Training in the practical skills that surround research rather than sit inside it: managing references, typesetting a manuscript, translating scientific writing into English, and presenting yourself on paper.
4
Courses
4
Sessions held
2014–15
Years active
EN / FA
Languages covered
Courses in this series
Four short courses, each aimed at a specific practical obstacle researchers meet.
EndNote — Advanced Level
2014Reference management
Referencing is among the most basic and most exacting parts of preparing a manuscript. This workshop covered EndNote in depth as the tool that makes it manageable, from building libraries to inserting and reformatting citations.
Session: 20 November 2014.
LaTeX — High-Quality Document Generation
2014Typesetting
LaTeX is among the most widely used open-source systems for producing typeset documents of the highest quality, and many international journals ask authors for the .tex file it generates. The workshop introduced the system and its output.
Session: 18 December 2014.
Translating Articles from Persian into English
2015Language skills
A practical course on the principles of good translation and the problems that recur in scientific translation, with exercises covering each section of a paper from title through to conclusion, and a question period after each part in which participants raised difficulties from their own work.
Session: 15 January 2015.
Preparing a Resume and a CV
Career skillsAll disciplines
Applications to universities and research institutes, and job applications, all turn on the same document. This course set out what distinguishes a resume from a CV, how to write each well, and the mistakes that occur most often.
This is an archive record
These workshops ran in 2014 and 2015 and registration is closed. For current training see Workshops & Training for Researchers. Translation and language editing are available as publishing services.