This page holds the material used for the course Technical Writing and Speaking in English of the M1 MOSIG at University Grenoble Alpes during the 2024-2025 session.

• Danilo Carastan-Santos: danilo.carastan-dos-santos@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
• Marina Gradvohl: marina.gradvohl@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

We would like to thank Susan Sinclair (UGA/UFR Langues Etrangères) for providing content to improve the course.

The course aims to help the student with the following skills:

• Develop the ability to create well-formatted documents using LaTeX
• Understand the basic structure of a scientific document and its writing conventions
• Develop writing techniques to write clear, convincing, and energetic scientific documents
• Be more comfortable when presenting scientific content to an audience

The table below presents a tentative schedule for this course.

Week	Date	Content
1	28/01/2025	Course presentation and tools for scientific writing
2	04/02/2026	Structure of a research article and formulating research questions
3	11/02/2026	Writing an introduction
4	25/02/2026	Reviewing previous research: related work
5	04/03/2026	Class cancelled
6	11/03/2026	Writing an introduction
7	18/03/2026	Writing a scientific methodology
8	25/03/2026	Writing scientific results
9	01/04/2026	Writing a scientific discussion and conclusion, Abstract and a Title
10	15/04/2026	Mid-term exam + Presenting scientific content (speaking)
11	22/04/2026	Hands-on student presentations (three-minute madness)

1. Mid-term exam (MT): 50%
2. Mid-report + Student presentations (RP): 50%

Final Grade = 0.5*MT + 0.5*RP

The final report will be checked by a plagiarism detection system. Any detected plagiarism will trigger administrative sanctioning procedures.

The instructions differ if you are enrolled as a MOSIG student or an exchange student:

Your mid-report must be an initial version of your internship intermediate report. The content must be as follows

1. (mandatory) The description of the research problem and the objectives of

the internship

1. (mandatory) The description of the background information related to your

internship and the analysis of the state of the art

1. (optional) The current status of the work: description of preliminary ideas, milestones

(for example, testbed setup, prototype implementation)

1. (optional) The plan (what you expect to do) for the remainder of the internship
2. (mandatory) The bibliography

You must use the same template of your internship report, and must not exceed two pages, including references.

Your task is to write a scientific paper about the QuickSort algorithm. Suppose that you are the creators of this algorithm, and now you want to publish your work as a scientific paper. The paper must follow the provided template (https://cloud.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/s/GLE4qxtWzw9FHJr) and must not exceed two pages, including references.

The deadline is Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 11:59 PM Paris time. You must enroll on MOODLE (https://im2ag-moodle.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/course/view.php?id=348) to submit your report. The enrollment key will be given during class. Only submissions from MOODLE will be accepted.

• Alley, M. (2018). The Craft of Scientific Writing. Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8288-9
• Alley, M. (2013). The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid. Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8279-7