| Course title | |||||
| 科学英語 [Scientific English] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 2 | ||
| Department | Year | 1～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 71VD51007 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 山﨑 朗子（岩）, ONWONA-AGYEMAN SIAW, 田中 知己 [YAMAZAKI Akiko, ONWONA-AGYEMAN Siaw, TANAKA Tomomi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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（Lecture outline） This course is designed to provide graduate students with numerous opportunities to use English for scientific communication. The ultimate goal is to prepare students to write reports based on their own research work and to effectively communicate with other researchers and scientists in English. In addition to the topics below, there will also be discussions on global issues to deepen the understanding of students interested in working in a multicultural environment. There will also be discussions on the search for sustainable ways of utilizing global resources to satisfy our energy, food and fiber needs. |
| Expected Learning |
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At the end of the lecture, students should be able to acquire enough communication skills to enable them to: (1) present their research work orally in English. (2) participate in seminars, workshops, discussions ask and express their opinions and comments in English. (3) write reports based on their own research work and to effectively communicate with other researchers and scientists in English. (4) write research proposals in English. |
| Course schedule |
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Week 1: Orientation: An explanation of the course content and expectations. Week 2: Similarities and differences among scientific journals and writing styles Week3: Choosing appropriate research titles and captions for figures and tables (II) Week 4: The main components of a scientific report (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, References, Acknowledgement) Week 5: Commonly used sentence/paragraph connectors in scientific reports (II) Week 6: Choosing sentence/paragraph connectors in scientific reports (exercise) Week 7: Identifying and correcting mistakes in scientific reports Week 8: Writing reports based on "model" Laboratory experiments Week 9: Writing reports based on "model" Field experiments Week 10: Writing reports based on "model" Questionnaire-based surveys Week 11: Citing references in scientific reports (II) Week 12: Presenting statistical results in scientific reports (II) Week 13: Writing of acknowledgement Week 14: Commonly used expressions in oral/poster presentations Week 15: Presentation and submission of final reports |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Handouts will be provided during each class. |
| References |
| To be announced during the lectures. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Assessment of students will be done on the basis of attendance, completion of assignments and a final presentation. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| This is a communication class so I expect all students to participate actively in the discussions. |
| Course keywords |
| Office hours |
| Thursdays (13:00-14:30) |
| Remarks 1 |
| Remarks 2 |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
| Language Subject |
| English |
| Last update |
| 6/13/2018 7:09:38 PM |