Our goal at the Academic Writing Center is to guide scientists at all stages in their careers towards improving their science communication skills in writing, speaking and teaching in English. Whether through one of our training courses or our one-to-one sessions, each activity is a personalised exchange that focuses on skill-building towards full autonomy.
All of our services are free to the Université Paris-Saclay research community.
We’ll guide you through your own work — helping you learn as you go.
Bring us your:
- Research articles
- Presentations
- Grant proposals
- Course materials (for teaching in English)
We won’t edit for you — we’ll coach you live as you work, helping you develop lasting skills.
Upcoming event: Effectively Communicating Research
Thursday 3 December 2026, 9:00–16:30
Bâtiment Eiffel, CentraleSupélec, 8 rue Joliot-Curie, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
A one-day event for doctoral students, postdocs and faculty on sharing research with students, peers and the public. Through a roundtable, workshops and short presentations, the day explores three themes: teaching in English, popularizing your science, and best writing practices.
Program
- 9:00 Welcome and opening remarks (Michelle Awad and Daniella Luca, Academic Writing Center)
- 9:15 Roundtable: Writing and thinking in the age of AI, with Ervan Achirou, Cail Daley and further guests
- 10:30 Workshop: Same words, different readings: feedback and checking understanding when you teach in English (Iulia Dragomir)
- 12:00 Lunch, with information tables from Grammarly and Open Science, Université Paris-Saclay
- 13:15 Session: Strategic Scientific Communication: Lessons from the 3MT (Bethany Cagnol, Télécom Paris)
- 14:30 Workshop: Open science in practice: how to identify predatory journals (Amandine Lustrement, Open Science, Université Paris-Saclay)
- 15:45 Flash presentations: students present their research in three to five minutes each
Registration is free. Register by Thursday 26 November: limesurvey.centralesupelec.fr/index.php/227645. Lunch is provided for registered participants.
Doctoral students who attend the full day earn 1 ADUM training credit (you must also enroll for the event on ADUM). All sessions are held in English. Questions: awc@centralesupelec.fr