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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 29, 2019 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 5, 2019 Lecture 2 |
Planning your Doctoral Studies |
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 Debora J. Bell, Sharon L. Foster, and John D. Cone (2019) Dissertations and Theses From Start to Finish, APA |
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September 12, 2019 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 19, 2019 Lecture 5 |
How to Find a Research Topic (by Prof. Marek Druzdzel) Video: Creativity and Scientific Discovery Herbert A. Simon |
Raul E. Valdes-Perez Personal Recollections from 15 years of Monthly Meetings Shigeto Kawahara Finding research topics Keio University Don Davis 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 26, 2019 Lecture 3
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Presentations |
Video: Desires and Diversions. |
Susanne Ulm How To Improve The Presentation Skills Of PhD Students Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam Mastering Your Ph.D.: Giving a Great Presentation Science, Oct. 20, 2006 Christine Kelly Mastering the Art of Presenting Inside Higher Ed, February 6, 2017 Allison Gaffey The elevator pitch American Psychological Association, June 2014 Fred Miller NO SWEAT Elevator Speech!: Expanded Edition |
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October 10, 2019 Lecture 6 |
Reference and Search Tools |
Thomson Reuters Web of Science Tutorial University of North Carolina EndNote Tutorial Wikipedia Impact Factor, H-Index Teixeira da Silva, J.A. & Dobranszki, J. : Multiple versions of the h-index: cautionary use for formal academic purposes. Scientometrics, May 2018, Volume 115, Issue 2, pp 1107-1113 |
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October 17, 2019 Lecture 7-1 |
Writing Grant Proposals 1 Research Idea "Elevator Speech" Presentation |
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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 24, 2019 Lecture 7-2 |
Writing Grant Proposals 2 Research Paper Summary Presentation |
Slides |
See the readings above |
Research Paper Summary Due |
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October 31, 2019 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. |
White Paper Due |
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November 7, 2019 Lecture 9
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Teaching |
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 14, 2019 Lecture 10
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Time Management Video: Time Management Randy Pausch |
Erin Walker |
Peter R Drucker Managing Oneself Harward Business Review David Allen (2002) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.Penguin |
Reviews for the White Paper Due |
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November 21, 2019 Lecture 11
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Peer Review |
Harry Hochheiser |
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 |
First version of the final research proposal due |
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November 28, 2019 Thanksgiving |
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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.
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December 5, 2019 Lecture 12
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Career Planning Video: Some Keys to a Successful Career |
Kayhan Batmanghelich |
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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Peer reviews for research proposals due |
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December 12, 2019
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Final version of research proposal due Research Proposal Presentation
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