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Seminar on Scientific Soft Skills Seminar organization Jaroslav Křivánek, MFF UK [email protected]

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Seminar on Scientific Soft Skills

Seminar organizationJaroslav Křivánek, MFF [email protected]

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Feedback!

Why did you sing up?

What do you expect?

What do you want to work on? What skills would you like to improve?

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How could the seminar look like

English grammar exercises at the beginning of each class Hewings: Advanced grammar in use

Five minute presentation of each student’s work With slides

Lectures given by me Critical reading Paper reviewing Scientific writing Presentation

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How could the seminar look like

Each student is assigned a paper Conference-style presentation (15 + 5 minutes

sharp)

Followed by a critical discussion of the paper

Critical review – review form provided

Two page summary – ready for publication

Another round of conference-style presentations This time flawless!

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Making this effective

Do not waste time:

Work on your own paper in the seminar!(Or choose something closely related to your work)

Where to find the papers http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/ http://tog.acm.org/ http://diglib.eg.org/ http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tvcg http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow

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Rules

Seminar held exclusively in English

Attendance mandatory Miss more than 2x = fail

Deadlines are strict Missing a deadline = fail

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Deadline summary (1/2)

03/01/2012 (Next week) – paper choice Send me your choice by e-mail during the week Can discuss during / after today’s seminar

03/08/2012 (Week 3) – students’ work presentations

03/22/2012 (Week 4) – paper presentations start 2 papers per seminar – we’ll see how it goes

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Deadline summary (2/2)

04/05/2012 (Week 7) – paper review

05/10/2012 (Week 12) – written paper summary

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Students’ work presentations

5 minutes max, with slides Structure

Introduce yourself

Work you have done in the past (publications?, awards?)

What research questions are you working on in general? What is their relevance to your research field and society?

What is your current work on? What results are you expecting? Where/when do you want to publish?

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Literature

Hewings: Advanced grammar in use, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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