Welcome to Writing Theses and Articles in English!

300531 SE      Winter Semester 2011-12

Instructor:    

Dr. Brian Metscher
Dept. of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna
Tel. 1 4277 56704      
brian.metscher@univie.ac.at
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/brian.metscher   

Assistant:    

Mag. Nele Herdina
Dept. of Theoretical Biology

and Dept. of Integrative Zoology
annanele.herdina@univie.ac.at

Main textbooks:    

A Short Guide To Writing About Biology, J. Pechenik

(6th or 7th ed., Pearson Educ.; ca. €30; check Amazon.de)
The Elements of Style, W. Strunk and E. B. White, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th edition 

(ca. 4-10 Euro; full text online at  http://www.questia.com/read/13752988?title=The%20Elements%20of%20Style,
or download a zip file here:  http://orwell.ru/Download/Style/etes_htm.zip  )

You should also have a German-English (or just English) dictionary with usage examples (LEO is not enough)