Manuscript Writing Made Easy

Greetings from UMeLearning,

The eLearning Division, UMeHealth Unit together with lecturers and researchers from the Dept of Primary Care Medicine invites you to register for the “Manuscript Writing Made Easy” online course. If you are working on getting your research published, then this course is for you. This online course aims to provide guidance for researchers on how to write a manuscript based on the IMRAD (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion) format. You will also be taught how to select an appropriate journal to submit your manuscript to, understand the processes of preparing your manuscript for submission and dealing with reviewer comments. Tips will be given on academic writing style, how to avoid plagiarism, and the formatting of references. Practical examples and hands-on exercises will be given.

By the end of this course, you will acquire the knowledge and skills of writing a publishable manuscript.

*This course uses examples mainly from the field of healthcare and medicine, however, the general structure for writing and preparing a manuscript is applicable for participants from other fields of study.

Live chat session
This course is administrator led and live chat sessions will also be conducted whereby teachers will be present in the course to answer your questions in real-time on the course topics. There will be three live sessions throughout the 4-week course and each session is one hour.

Course details
Course duration: 4 weeks
Course start: 5 September 2022 (Monday)
Course end: 2 October 2022 (Sunday)

Course module

Week 1
Module 1: Introduction and objective
Module 2a: Methodology for a quantitative study
Module 2b: Methodology for a qualitative study
Module 3: Patient and public involvement

Week 2
Module 4a: Results for a quantitative study
Module 4b: Results for a qualitative study

Week 3
Module 5: Discussion and conclusion
Module 6: Title and abstract

Week 4
Module 7: Plagiarism, referencing and language tips
Module 8: Selecting a journal for publication
Module 9: Addressing reviewer comments

Course fee

UM staff and students: RM300

Non-UM: RM400

Registration and payment (Closing: 1 September 2022)

https://forms.gle/RG9MtW357TKjNyKz7

For more information, e-mail: fom_elearning@um.edu.my

We welcome registration from everyone.

Thank you.

Devan

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Seksyen eLearning | eLearning Section
Unit UMeHealth | UMeHealth Unit
Fakulti Perubatan | Faculty of Medicine
Universiti Malaya
50602 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://ehealth.um.edu.my/

Manuscript Writing Made Easy

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