| Course title | |||||
| コミュニケーション演習 （英語・東京農工大学） [English Seminar on Academic Communications(in English, at TUAT)] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 1 | ||
| Department | Year | ～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 96006 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| ONWONA-AGYEMAN SIAW [ONWONA-AGYEMAN Siaw] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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This course is designed to provide graduate students with numerous opportunities to use English in 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. To achieve this goal, students will be required to write reports based on model experiments. In addition to the topics below, there will also be discussions on global issues to broaden the knowledge of students interested in working in an international organization. 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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Topics Topics Week 1: Orientation: Explanation of the course content and grading criteria. Week 2: Communicating in multi-cultural/racial societies. Week 3: Scientific journals and writing styles. Week 4: Choosing attractive research titles/topics. Week 5: A brief explanation of the main components of a scientific report (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, References, Acknowledgement). Week 6: Sentence/paragraph connectors mostly used by native English writers in scientific reports. Week 7: Identifying and correcting errors in scientific reports. Week 8: Writing reports based on “model experiments” ? Questionnaire surveys, Laboratory and Field experiments. Week 9: Writing Research proposals. Week 10: Ethical and legal issues in Scientific Communications. Week 11: Citing references in scientific reports and captions for figures and tables. Week 12: Presenting data and statistical results in scientific reports. Week 13: Sexist expressions in English reports. 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 in class. |
| References |
| To be announced in the lectures. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Assessment of students will be done on the basis of attendance, completion of assignments and a final presentation at the end of the course. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| This is a communication class so I expect all students to participate actively in the discussions. |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
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| Last update |
| 3/14/2018 5:06:49 PM |