Scientific Writing for MSc in Computer Science : Weekly program

Weekly program. Lecture slides will be added after the lecture

number, day Lecture topic Writing tasks
Week 1: 2.9. - 6.9. Start-up,  material search and evaluation slides, handout6, topic selection, material search, paper layout,
start your list of references bibliography (file), reading,
Week 2: 9.9 - 13.9. Writing process slides, handout6, reading, report structure, table of content, writing (use proper layout)
Week 3: 16.9. - 20.9. Use of references (+time management) slides, handout6, reading, writing (first draft version) Introduction + section 2, 2-3 pages
Week 4: 23.9.- 27.9. Ethics of writing slides, handout6, writing 2-5 pages more
Week 5: 30.9. -.10. Reviewing a paper slides, handout6, Reviewing week, review fellow student papers, write the rest of the pages
Week 6: 7.10. - 11.10. Future: seminars and MSc thesis slides, handout6, Final editing week, fill the abstact page, submission deadline Friday 11.10.
Week 8:   ULTIMATE DEADLINE Fri 25.10. grade penalty from missing this deadline.

 

For the paper submission, there is a grace period until Friday 25.10. 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 25.10 will have highest possible grade 4, submissions after Friday 8.11. grade 3, etc.