Orientation to MSc Studies : Detailed schedule and lecture material
Orientation to MSc Studies
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Monday 5th of September, 2011
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Tuesday 6th of September, 2011
- Study planning
- Teaching, learning and assessment methods (thre first part (Teaching) on Tuesday, the second part (Learning and assessment) on Friday)
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Friday 9th of September, 2011
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Monday 12th of September, 2011
- Scientific writing - part 1: writing tasks in this course; scientific writing and characteristics of scientific text; scientific publications and the publication process; scientific writing process
- Some useful material for Scientific writing
- Tasks for this week:
- Read lecture slides on Scientific writing, part 1 and especially part 2 (see next week's slides) on information retrieval
- Search for articles on your topic (NOTE! If you have not agreed on your topic yet, please contact the lecturer of this course immediately!)
- Start reading your source articles
- Feedback on the first week of studies (If you have not yet given your feedback form to the lecturer, do that as soon as possible!)
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Monday 19th of September, 2011
- Scientfic writing - part 2: scientific information retrieval and scientific reading
- Scientific writing - part 3: references and using them in scientific text
- Tasks for this week:
- Search for more articles on your topic (NOTE! If you have not agreed on your topic yet, please contact the lecturer of this course immediately!)
- Make a list of references for your summary - use the departmental layout model and the slide material on this topic!
- Send the list to the lecturer at latest on Monday 26th of September
- Start reading your source articles
- Friday 23th of September, 2011
- Scientific writing - part 4: Writing process (; the structure of study-related scientific texts)
- Tasks for this week:
- Search for more articles on your topic (NOTE! If you have not agreed on your topic yet, please contact the lecturer of this course immediately!)
- Make a list of references for your summary - use the departmental layout model and the slide material on this topic!
- Send the list to the lecturer at latest on Monday 26th of September
- Start reading your source articles
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Friday 30th of September, 2011
- Scientific writing - part 4: (Writing process;) the structure of study-related scientific texts
- Scientific writing - part 5: Ethics in scientific writing
- Feedback on lists of references
- Tasks for this and the next week:
- Revise your list of references for the summary - use the departmental layout model and the slide material on this topic!
- Send the revised/final list of references to the lecturer in the beginning of week 40
- Read your source articles and write the first version of your summary
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Friday 7th of October, 2011
- Scientific writing - part 5: Ethics in scientific writing (continues)
- Course exams and preparing oneself for them
- Other topics to be announced later
- Tasks for this and the next week:
- Send the revised/final list of references to the lecturer in the beginning of week 40
- Revise your summary
- Submit your summary via the Moodle environment of University of Helsinki at latest on Friday 14th of October! (Note the change in the deadline) More instructions on the submission is available on subpage Submitting summaries and essays of this course.
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Friday 14th of October, 2011
- Self-assessment of learning and studying on Period 1
- Tasks for this week:
- Revise your summary
- Submit your summary via the Moodle environment of University of Helsinki at latest on Friday 14th of October at 24.00! (Note the change in the deadline) More instructions on the submission is available on subpage Submitting summaries and essays of this course (and the e-mail sent by the lecturer earlier this week).
Note: The slide material on scientific writing is mainly based on the lecture material of the Bachelor's level course "Scientific writing". That material, in turn, is based on Justin Zobel's book Writing for Computer Science. Other sources of the slides material on scientific writing are mentioned on page Useful links for Scientific writing in section Material useful for writing.
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Friday 4th of November, 2011
- Session is cancelled!
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Friday 11th of November, 2011
- Conclusions on learning and studying on Period 1: Fill in the self-assessment form with the conclusions part (You can get one from the lecturer if you were not present on Friday's session) and give a copy of it to the lecturer.
- General feedback on the summaries
- Topics of the following sessions
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Friday 18th of November, 2011
- Feedback on the summaries and the preliminary versions of essays
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Friday 25th of November, 2011
- Feedback on the summaries and the preliminary versions of essays
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Friday 2nd of December, 2011
- Feedback on the summaries and the preliminary versions of essays
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Friday 9th of December, 2011
- Session is cancelled!
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