Details of LS5102 (Autumn 2012)

Level: 5 Type: Seminar Credits: 3.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
LS5102 Seminar and Scientific Presentation Partha Pratim Datta,
Robert John Chandran

Syllabus
Seminar and scientific presentation



COURSE CONTENT AND METHOD

Scientific presentation skills

- Scientific talks

- Posters

- Popular Talks

Method: Lectures by the instructors and presentations/posters by the students; videos and text of famous talks, speeches etc.



Writing skills:

- popular writing

- technical reviews and summaries of a body of scientific knowledge

- formal scientific communication

- writing responses to comments

- ethics of scientific communication

Method: Lectures by the instructors and written exercises by the students



Critiquing scientific articles:

- summarising a critique

- formal communication of a letter of critique to a journal editor

Method: Lectures by the instructors and group exercises by students


References

Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 1 Not Allowed
2 IP 3 Not Allowed
3 MS 9 Core
4 RS 1 Not Allowed