THE ART & CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL WRITING – FROM A TO (ALMOST) Z

RATIONALE: Doing is necessary but not sufficient for science & technology. The problem, the process, the result, the discussion, and the conclusion ought to be communicated so as to achieve meaningful outcome. The requisite communication skill is neither trivial nor to be taken for granted.

However, compared to the hours and years of formal training on ‘doing’, training on ‘communicating’ received by science & technology professionals is abysmal. This unfortunate pattern pervades world over, but is present to a debilitating degree in Indian institutes for higher education. The problem is intensified by the fact that while the lingua franca of scientific & technical communication is English, it is not the first language of most Indians.

As the only government university on science & technology with its ambit across the entire state of West Bengal, it is incumbent upon Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), WB to take initiative on imparting high quality training on scientific & technical communication to its constituent knowledge communities.

This Workshop is designed as an exercise towards that purpose.

ORGANIZED JOINTLY BY: THE CENTER OF LINGUISTICS and THE SCHOOL OF NATURAL, APPLIED, &    SOCIAL SCIENCES, MAKAUT, WB, INDIA.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH: THE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, J&K, INDIA.

FUNDED BY: TEQIP III GRANT.

EVENT DATES: November 2 – 6, 2020; 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM & 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM (IST).

BENEFICIARY:  The entire faculty community, the entire research scholar community, and the entire PG student community of MAKAUT, WB. Also, open to members of these communities at large.

SUBSIDIZED REGISTRATION FEEof INR 250 per person not affiliated to TEQIP institutes. Free to registrants from TEQIP institutes.

CONTACT: Sukhendu Samajdar, PhD, Professor & Director, the School of Natural, Applied & Social Sciences and Professor-in-Charge of the Language Laboratory at MAKAUT, WB.

mail.dar@gmail.com   +91 98362 21052

At a Glance

WHO should attend?

• Young Researchers;
• Young Teachers;
• PhD scholars; and
• PG students.

WHY: For the Participants, the Workshop will

·         Increase the odds of winning grants by writing impressive projects.

·         Increase the odds of publishing in high impact factor journals.

·         Decrease the number of revisions of the dissertation/ thesis before it is accepted.

·         Improve student engagement & feedback for teachers by use of clear & compelling presentations.

For the University, the Workshop will

·         Serve as an essential knowledge service provided to its thousands of PhD scholars;

·         Reduce average cycle time for PhD dissertation completion.

WHEN: November 2 – 6, 2020; 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM & 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM.

WHERE: Online; Zoom Platform.

HOW: Lecture, Demonstration, Q&A Interaction; Assignment and more.

TOPICS & SESSION CONDUCTORS*:

• “CAUTION: Garbage In, Garbage Out! Design Your Research for Meaningful Results” by Dr. Rohini Dutta, IIT Kanpur.
• “MindMapping: Tools of the Mind for Idea Management” by Prof Sukhendu Samajdar, MAKAUT.
• “Simply Good Writing: What Writers in Science & Technology Can Learn from Literature” by Prof Nilanjana Gupta, Jadavpur University.
• “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Impressive Graphs, Figures, and Tables; but Were Hesitant to Ask” by Dr. Soham Mukherjee, Research Scientist, Uppsala University, Sweden.
• “Citing with Style: Footnotes, Endnotes, References, Bibliography, and that Whole Shebang” (to be identified)
• “The Subtle Art of Writing for Publication in High-IF Journals” by (to be identified).
• “Abstract, Anyone? The Challenge of the First Impression” (to be identified)
• “Presentations that Persuade with Clarity and Elegance” by (to beidentified).
• “Crafting Compelling Project Proposals – Tricks of the Trade that Will Win You the Grant” by Rohini Dutta, IIT Kanpur.
• “Writing Readable Mathematics” by (to be identified).
• “Writing Dissertation/ Thesis using Latex” by (to be identified).
• “Assembling Big Project Reports: From the Executive Summary to Annexure & Appendices” by Dr. Shaon RayChaudhuri, Tripura University.
• “Patent Your Ideas; but How? The Skillful Craft of Filing Patent Applications” Dr. Yashawant Dev, TIFAC, DST, GoI.

*Indicative, subject to alterations.

For  more information about the University, please visit:

https://makautwb.ac.in/