As usual, the doctoral students networked, shared experiences and learned new things during a lecture on how AI can be used in scientific writing, and in discussions about how to write a good coat or grant application. Between the activities, plenty of time was given for their own writing.
What is your best writing tip?
– I really like the ‘Dirty First Draft’, where you sit and you just write everything without really being worried about having a perfect text. I think that's the best one. I think to be able to share the results of what I have been doing, that is the main inspiration, says Anna Sabsil Lopez Rocha, Karolinska Institutet.
– Just don't get stuck, write everything even if it's not in correct order, write everything down and at the end of the day you can just sort it out. The environment here inspires me, we're all academic here and people from different backgrounds. We can exchange our thoughts and our ideas, so at the end of the day we get really strong papers, says Johannes Todorov, Jönköping University.
– I think the best writing tip is that you need to start writing something, like anything on the paper. If you're just thinking in your head, then it's not coming forward, so you just need to write. Just keep on writing something. Even if it's not that good, says Sarah Nauman Ghazi, Blekinge Institute of Technology.
What inspires you to write really well?
– I think reading different publications and using AI to search different articles. When you read different scientific literature on your particular topic that you're interested in, then you can summarize and look into the knowledge gap that exists. So, I mean, if you have a clear knowledge gap in mind, then it really inspires you to write in a good way, Sarah Nauman Ghazi continues.
