Do you want to improve the presentation of your research paper?
Do you want to make journal editors happy?
Then, it’s the right moment to come to our RPS seminar.
Prof. Nadin from RPS chair will give us a presentation and share his experience during the seminar.
The workshop will be based on some real examples of text submitted to journals and how a few simple rules can help to improve them. The rules are based on the conventions adopted by major social science publishers such as Routledge/Taylor and Francis, and the European Commission. It is not a workshop on how to write in English – it is about how to follow publishers conventions, although we will mention a few common errors in grammar, and writing in Plain English? So a quotation (not a quote) is apposite:
‘Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.’
Orwell, George (1946) Politics and the English Language, Horizon, 13(76): 252-65.”
Let’s come to our academic date.
We are really welcome you all from any chair to join in our seminars and bring some fresh ideas.
Location: BK. 01. West. 290
Time: 19 March (Friday), 12.45-14.15
