| Course title | |||||
| コミュニケーション演習（英語・宇都宮大学） [English Seminar on Academic Communications(in English, at Utsunomiya University)] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 1 | ||
| Department | Year | ～ | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 96005 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| SACHI SRI KANTHA [SACHI Sri Kantha] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | United Graduate School Agricultural Science | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
| Classes will be conducted in English, and students will learn mainly about dissertations, composition, writing, and presentation of dissertations. |
| Expected Learning |
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Active class participation. Completion of the assigned home works at regular deadlines. NO Final exam will be given. |
| Course schedule |
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Tentative Lecture schedule is as follows: (1) Introduction to overall course contents. (2) What is a scientific paper? (3) and (4): Critically reading published science papers. (5) Student presentation on ‘My Idol Scientist(s)’ (6). Steps in writing a science paper (7). Publication Ethics and Fraud (8). How to deal with Editors and Reviewers (9). How to cope with manuscript rejection? (10). Learning from published best research papers (11) Poetry in science and Scientist poets (12) Hints on good Oral presentation (13) and (14) Introduction to good books written by scientists (15) Student presentation of their research. |
| Prerequisites |
| Motivation to learn scientific English, and read published in peer-reviewed journals. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| None. Relevant reading materials provided by the instructor. |
| References |
| See below ‘Related URL’. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Active class participation. Completion of the assigned home works at regular deadlines. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
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Sri Kantha’s message to students on learning English is as follows: ‘If you think it is hard, it is hard. If you think it is easy, it is hard. If you think it is a language, it is hard. If you think, it is learning a skill (技), it is easy.’ Let’s enjoy this pleasure. |
| Course keywords |
| Office hours |
| One hour, following the lecture time, on Monday. |
| Remarks 1 |
| See above Pass criterion, for successful completion of this Seminar course. |
| Remarks 2 |
| Related URL |
| http://www.wataminato.org/ - active website of Sachi Sri Kantha https://www1.gifu-u.ac.jp/~srikanth/ - old website of Sachi Sri Kantha, at the Gifu University (not updated since Feb. 2013). Still functional. |
| Lecture Language |
| English |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 1/31/2020 4:49:36 PM |