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Talk I gave at Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) 2013 on the paper "Writing Groups in Computer Science Research Labs" which describes how to form a writing group in your research lab. Paper is located here: http://cs.ucsb.edu/~adoupe/static/writing-groups-in-computer-science-research-labs-fie2013.pdf
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Writing Groups in Computer Science Research Labs
Adam Doupé and Janet L. Kayfetz
University of California, Santa Barbara
FIE 2013 – 10/26/13
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Typical Grad Student Feedback
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What Other Ways?
• Workshops– Infrequent
• Academic writing class– Quarter long focus– Hard to scale
• A writing group– Weekly focus on writing– Grad students teach themselves
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Research Lab Writing Group
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Implementation
• Meet weekly ~30 minutes– We’ve had ~35 meetings in the last year
• 10 minutes teaching/discussing a writing concept– Introductions, data commentary, word choice,
genre, academic tone, the writing process• 20 minutes group editing
– Try to tie the piece being edited to the previously discussed writing concept
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Group Editing
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What Went Well
“You see how everybody (even the good writers) are struggling to write even a single paragraph: If you are a bad writer and your writing skills-related self-confidence is near zero (i.e., me), it’s a huge help to boost your confidence! Writing is hard. Period. It’s good to know.”- First-year PhD Student
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Improvements
• Reliance on a leader
• Attendance
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WRITING GROUPS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH LABS
Adam Doupé
Email: [email protected]: @adamdoupe
Special thanks to Giovanni Vigna and Chris Kruegel for their support