At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Use strategies to enhance the strengths of their publications
• Evaluate the quality of a target journal
• Describe the process of the peer review system
• Write powerful cover letters and revision letters
• Recognize unethical behaviour and publishing misconduct

Teaching methods

This workshop follows a balanced approach, including input presentations provided by the trainer, individual learning phases and group exercises. In addition, hand-outs, checklists, sample articles and examples of cover letters from the trainer's own experience in publishing articles will be provided.

Preparing for the workshop

During the workshop, participants can draft a cover letter (half page to one page) for their next publication. Therefore, before the workshop participants are asked to prepare the (preliminary) title of their next publication.

Workshop target group
This workshop is especially useful for Ph.D. candidates of Natural, Life and Social Sciences faculties. More experienced scientists such as early Postdocs can also take advantage of the workshop, since they can optimize their strategies to publish journal articles.

Please note:
Due to a large number of very short-term cancellations and unannounced absences in the recent past we would like to point out again that registrations for workshops of the Graduate Academy are binding. Cancellations are only acceptable under imperative circumstances and need to be announced as early as possible. If this is not the case, workshop places that have become available cannot be given to individuals on the waiting list or the workshop cannot be cancelled in due course in the case of low demand. In this case high cancellation fees occur. Under these circumstances the offer of the Graduate Academy cannot be held up in the medium term.