BIOS5500 – Science Writing

• You will practice different types of science writing.
• You will learn to edit and shorten long texts without losing content
• You will learn to write a brief article on any given scientific topic
• You will learn to write scientific pieces for a non-scientific readership, and to express scientific ideas clearly and concisely

Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

The courses BIOS5500 and BIOS9500 have joint admission. The course have a capacity of 12 students. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:

1. PhD candidates and master students at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum.

2. Other PhD candidates and visiting PhD candidates.

3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students

Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc. If admission is limited to a fixed number of participants, admission will be decided by drawing lots for students who are ranked equally

• Workshops
• Each week the students will mark and discuss the work of two or three other students, so at the end of the course each student will have substantial feedback from their peers for his/her work.
• Three short written exercises (500 words each)
• Final assignment of 1000 words

All course activities are mandatory. If you can not attend the first lecture, please send a note to studieinfo@ibv.uio.no, before the first lecture.

The assessment will be based on the completion of 3 short pieces (500 words) during the course, and one longer, final, assignment (1000 words). Students will be expected to complete all writing assignments on time, and attendance every day will be required.

Withdrawal from an examination

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: BIO9600 – Science Writing (continued), BIO4600 – Science Writing (continued), BIOS9500 – Scientific Writing.

Resit an examination

Re-scheduled examinations are not offered.