Scientific Writing for MSc in Computer Science : Course content and schedule
Weekly program. Lecture slides will be added after the lecture
| Lectures | Lecture topic | Writing tasks for that week |
| Wed 3.9. | Start-up, material search and evaluation slides, | topic selection, material search, paper layout, start your list of references bibliography (file), reading, |
| Wed 10.9. | Writing process slides, | reading, report structure, table of content, writing (use proper layout) |
| Wed 17.9. | Use of references (+writing process) slides, | reading, writing (first draft version) Introduction + section 2, 2-3 pages |
| Wed 24.9. | Ethics of writing (part 1) - Henriikka Clarkeburn slides, | writing 2-5 pages more |
| Mon 29.9. | Ethics of writing (part 2) - Henriikka Clarkeburn | |
| Wed 1.10. | Reviewing a paper slides, handout6, | writing 2-5 pages more |
| Mon 6.10. | Discussions about style and language | |
| Wed 8.10. | Writing process (part 2) slides, | Reviewing week, review fellow student papers, write the rest of the pages |
| Mon 13.10. | research groups and working in Finland | good links: 'Guide to Working in Finland', 'Working in Finland - information for immigrants' |
| Wed 15.10. | Future: seminars and MSc thesis slides | |
| Final editing week, fill the abstact page, submission deadline Friday 17.10. | ||
| ULTIMATE DEADLINE Fri 24.10. grade penalty from missing this deadline. |
For the paper submission, there is a grace period until Friday 24.10. If you are late from that, you start loosing the grades from the highest. Every two weeks the highest possible grade you can gain lowers by one. So submissions after 24.10 will have highest possible grade 4, submissions after Friday 7.11. grade 3, etc.
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