Τμήμα Ωκεανογραφίας και Θαλασσίων Βιοεπιστημών

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Writing of a scientific paper
School:
Of the Environment
Academic Unit:
Department of Marine Sciences
Level of studies:
Postgraduate
Course Code:
Semester:
C
Course Title:
Writing of a scientific paper
Independent Teaching Activities
Independent Teaching Activities
Weekly Teaching Hours
6
Credits
15
Course Type:
Skills development
Prerequisite Courses:
No
Language of Instruction and Examinations:
Αγγλικά
Is the course offered to Erasmus students:
No
  • (2) Learning Outcomes
  • Learning Outcomes

After the successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • Draw conclusions and evaluate the research results.

  • Understand the processes of writing, submitting and peer-reviewing a scientific article

  • Successfully write a scientific article

  • Disseminate the research results to scientific community

  • General Competences

  • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology

  • Adapting to new situations

  • Decision-making

  • Working independently

  • Production of new research ideas              

  • Criticism and self-criticism

  • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

  • (3) Syllabus

The subject of the thesis, the process of thesis production and the scientific paper writing are supervised by one staff member of the Department. Instructions of good practices in writing scientific articles are given.

  • (4) Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation
  • Delivery:

Face to face

  • Use of Information and Communication Technology:

Use of Ms Office applications, eclass, web databases and search engines of peer-reviewed literature (e.g., Scopus, Web of Science)

  • Teaching Methods:
Activity Semester workload
Lectures
10
Lectures
320
Course total/i>
330
  • Student Performance Evaluation:

Language of evaluation: English

Submission of scientific article to an international peer-reviewed journal (100%)

  • (5) Attached Bibliography
  • Kalwij JM, Smit C (2013) How authors can maximize the chance of manuscript acceptance and article visibility. Learned Publishing 26: 28–31. https://doi.org/10.1087/20130106
  • Silver P (2016) Advice for early-career peer reviewers and authors responding to peer reviews. Freshwater Science 35: 1073–1075. https://doi.org/10.1086/688968
  • Grossman GD (2017) Coping with the editorial process: considerations for early–career biologists. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 40: 269-276. Available at http://abc.museucienciesjournals.cat/files/ABC_40-2_pp_269-276.pdf
  • Taylor BW (2016) Writing an effective response to a manuscript review. Freshwater Science 35: 1082–1087. https://doi.org/10.1086/688886
  • Cassey P, Blackburn TM (2003) Publication rejection among ecologists. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 375-376. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00160-5 (free copy is available at ResearchGate).