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[ Formal Data | Syllabus | Materials ]
The materials for the future lectures are "best guess" and provided for better planning
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August 31, 2016 Lecture 1 |
Part I: The Syllabus: What we will learn and how we will do it
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Alan Bundy, Ben du Boulay, Jim Howe and Gordon Plotkin (1985) The Researcher's Bible Ronald T. Azuma (2003) Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later Richard Butterworth (1998) I did a PhD and did NOT go mad Matt Might The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. And please, enjoy PhD Comics! |
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September 7, 2016 Lecture 2 |
Planning your Doctoral Studies |
Michael Lewis |
David Chapman (1988) How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab Marie desJardins (1994) How to Be a Good Graduate Student Diana Bental (1992) Thesis prevention: Advice to phd supervisors AISB Quarterly No. 80 Philip Guo (2012) The Ph.D. Grind: A Ph.D. student Memoir |
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September 14, 2016 Lecture 4
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The Working of Scientific Enterprise |
David Goodstein How Science Works How Science Really Works, University of California, Berkeley J. Paul Peter & Jerry C. Olson. Is Science Marketing? Journal of Marketing, 47, 111-125, 1983 Norbert L. Kerr HARKing: Hypothesizing After the Results are Known. Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, 196-217 1998 |
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September 21, 2016 Lecture 5 |
How to Find a Research Topic Video: Creativity and Scientific Discovery Herbert A. Simon |
Video: Desires and Diversions. |
Raul E. Valdes-Perez Personal Recollections from 15 years of Monthly Meetings Shigeto Kawahara Finding research topics Keio University Don Davis Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start? Columbia University Robert Hampel In Search of New Frontiers: How Scholars Generate Ideas. The Chronicle of Higher Education, DECEMBER 19, 2008 Uri Alon, How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem, Molecular Cell (2009), doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2009.09.013 |
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September 28, 2016 Lecture 6 |
Reference and Search Tools |
Balaji Palanisamy |
Thomson Reuters Web of Science Tutorial University of North Carolina EndNote Tutorial Wikipedia Impact Factor, H-Index |
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October 5, 2016 Lecture 7 |
Writing Grant Proposals 1 Research Idea Presentation 1 |
Susan Finger Advice on Writing Simon Peyton Jones, Alan Bundy Writing a good grant proposal National Science Foundation A Guide for Proposal Writing Locke L F, Spirduso W W, & Silverman S J. (1999). Proposals that work (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. |
Research Idea Paper Due |
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October 12, 2016 Lecture 7-2 |
Writing Grant Proposals 2 Research Idea Presentation 2 |
Rosta Farzan | See the readings above |
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October 19, 2016 Lecture 8 |
Writing Research Articles |
Becker, Howard. (1986). Writing for Social Scientists. Chicago, Chicago University Press. Richardson, Laurel. (1990). Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences. Sage Publications Zerubavel, Eviatar. (1999). The clockwork muse: A practical guide to writing theses, dissertations and books. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. Murray, R. (2002). How to write a thesis. Buckingham, Open University Press. Dunleavy, Patrick. (2003). Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft ,write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation. London, Palgrave. |
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November 2, 2010 Lecture 9
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Teaching |
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Wilbert J. McKeachie (1978). "Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher." Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath & Co.,17th edition |
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November 9, 2016 Lecture 10
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Time Management Video: Time Management Randy Pausch |
Peter R Drucker Managing Oneself Harward Business Review David Allen (2002) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.Penguin |
Research Paper Summary Due Research Paper Summary Presentation |
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November 16, 2016 Lecture 11
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Peer Review |
Juan Miguel Campanario (1996) Have Referees Rejected Some of the Most-Cited Articles of All Times? Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(4):302-310, 1996 Bruce D. Shriver (1990) The Benefits of Quality Refereeing. IEEE Computer, pages 10-16, April 1990 |
White Paper Due |
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November 23, 2016 Thanksgiving |
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November 30, 2016 Lecture 12
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Career Planning Video: Some Keys to a Successful Career |
Kostas Pelechrinis | Paul Gray, David E. Drew (2008) What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career. Stylus: Sterling, VA
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December 7, 2016 Lecture 13
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Presentations |
Adriana Kovashka | Richard Hamming. You And Your Research. Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar, 7 March 1986 Nick Rushby On being an editor, British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 46 No 4 2015 681–683 Anderson, K.K. (2014). The Editor—a vital role we barely talk about anymore The Scholarly Kitchen. |
Peer Review Due |
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December 14, 2016
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Final version of research proposal due Research Proposal Presentation
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