Presenter: Ed Hull
Date: Tuesday 8 February 2011
Time: 10:00-18:00
Location: Park Plaza Hotel, just a short walk from the Utrecht Central Rail Station
Price: €160.00 members; €190.00 non-members (includes buffet lunch)
Contact: Lee Ann Weeks
Sworn translators who attended this event are entitled to 8 PE points as defined in the Wet bëedigde tolken en vertalers
Researchers often have publication problems that cannot be solved by the native-speaking editor. Papers are rejected for so-called language problems—"have it edited by an English-native speaker.” The real problem, however, is often not so simple. Journal editors and peer reviewers want to see immediately what an article has to offer. Just like gold diggers, readers of journal articles are in search of “nuggets”—valuable pieces of information. Journal editors and reviewers are busy people and, if they cannot quickly and easily find such nuggets of information, they will not take the time to identify the real problem with your manuscript and simply respond "have it edited."
One of the tasks of the writer of a research paper is thus to provide the reader with nuggets of information. And one of the tasks of the language editor is to point out to the author when such critical pieces of information are missing or overly difficult to find. But how can the language editor best do this? That is what this workshop is all about.
PE points are being applied for.
The trainer
Ed Hull was a biomedical researcher for many years in the USA, Germany and the Netherlands. In addition to writing his own publications and presenting them at conferences, he has helped many non-English-native colleagues with their writing.
Every researcher must communicate well, and this—not the research—is usually the problem.
Ed Hull is now a communications consultant and teaches scientific writing at universities in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Together with Ann Bless, he is co-author of the popular Reader-friendly biomedical articles: How to write them. http://www.zuidencomm.nl/overzicht/details.php?c=34&p=198.
Note: If you are interested in attending this workshop but unable to on this date, please indicate this in the Comments section of the online registration form. Given sufficient interest, we will try to repeat the workshop.