This course called Applied Biomedical Communication and Professional Development has been running since 2022. This is a popular course with 47 masters students this year. It covers scientific writing, oral presentation skills, and career planning. 

In my workshop this week, the students learn to apply linguistic strategies for improved readability and flow in scientific manuscripts. Specifically, I cover:

• AI tools: what they can—and cannot—do for your writing. NEW for this year
• How to give feedback and why it is good for you, the reviewer
• Creating a structure: introducing the CARS template
• What makes a text easy or hard to read? The top 3 essentials
• How long is a too long sentence?
• Top-heavy sentences: why English hates them and why AI fails to fix them
• Creating flow: the concept of topic-stress
• The topic sentence and why every paragraph wants one