| Course title | |||||
| Doctoral Student Technical Writing [Doctoral Student Technical Writing] | |||||
| Course category | courses for the doctral program | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering | Year | ～ | Semester | 1st |
| Course type | 1st | Course code | 148101 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| ANTHONY Laurence（早） [ANTHONY Laurence] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
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In this course, students will develop the scientific and technical writing skills they need to construct research papers in their specialist field. The course will be divided into two parts. In the first part of the course, students will study about the characteristic features of high-quality international research journal papers in terms of intended audience, purpose,organization, flow, style, and presentation. Students will also learn to identify useful features and patterns of writing in their specialist field using powerful text analysis and visualization tools. In the second part of the course, students will plan and complete a short research paper describing their current work following the “Instructions for Authors” guideline of a target journal. As part of the writing process, students will learn how to paraphrase,cite, and reference previous work, write simple and extended definitions,explain methods and processes, introduce, explain, and hedge interpretations of data in figures and tables, and summarize their research in the form of a title, abstract, or list of keywords. The course will be delivered in an ON-DEMAND format through video lectures and accompanying slides and activities. The materials will be released one week prior to the start of the course. All homework assignments will need to be completed by one day after Day 3 of the course, and the final report will need to be completed by one week after Day 3 of the course. An *optional* face-to-face Zoom session will be organized on each day of the course for discussion of the materials and assignments. |
| Expected Learning |
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1. understand the characteristic features of research papers in terms of audience, purpose, organization, flow, style, and presentation 2. understand the importance of references, citations, and avoidance of plagiarism 3. learn how to read and interpret research journal “call for papers” and “instructions for authors” 4. write the title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections of a research paper in a specialist field 5. use text analysis tools to identify characteristic features and patterns of writing in a specialist field 6. paraphrase, cite, and reference previous work 7. write simple and extended definitions 8. explain methods and processes 9. introduce, explain, and hedge interpretations of results including those in figures and tables |
| Course schedule |
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Day 1 (July 16, 2021 - Friday) Period 1: Introduction and Basic Principles of Technical Writing:The meaning of research; The structure of a research paper Period 2: Audience, Purpose, Organization, Flow, Style, Presentation [Self-learning activities: finding a top journal, downloading model papers, identifying their characteristics features] Period 3: Introduction to analyzing research paper writing using text analysis tools Period 4: Data-driven learning; Writing biographies Period 5: Building a corpus of target research papers [Self-learning activities: building a corpus of target papers; analyzing the corpus to identify common patterns of language] Day 2 (July 17, 2020 - Saturday) Period 1: Preparing to write a research paper: Understanding the “Instructions for Authors” guide; References, citations, and the avoidance of plagiarism [Self-learning activities: paraphrasing, citing, and referencing previous works; planning the final paper] Period 2: Writing the title, keywords, and abstract of a research paper: Phrase titles, hanging titles, and sentence titles; The importance of Keywords; Summarizing research in the form of an abstract [Self-learning activities: writing the title, keywords, and abstract of the final paper] Period 3-4; Writing the introduction to a research paper: Definitions; Creating a niche; Introducing the current work [Self-learning activities: planning and writing the introduction to the final paper] Period 5: Writing the methods sections of a research paper Day 3 (July 18, 2021 - Sunday) Period 1: Writing the methods, results, and discussion sections of a research paper: Explaining methods and processes Period 2: Writing the results, and discussion sections of a research paper: Introducing, explaining, and interpreting findings [Self-learning activities: writing up the methods, results, and discussion of the final paper] Period 3: Writing the abstract of a research paper Period 4: Effective uses of an editing service; Writing cover letters; Submission checklists; Final report submission details Period 5: Finalizing and submitting a research paper: [Self-learning activities: submitting the final paper to a conference, journal, or supervisor] |
| Prerequisites |
| As part of the course, you will be writing a short report (approx. 1500 words) that summarizes *a small part* of your current (or past) research. This will be written using the following sections: title, abstract, introduction, methods, results/discussion, conclusion, references. To help write this report, please prepare the *content* for this report before the start of the course. (You do NOT need to write the report before coming!). In short, please bring a list of key background points, your references, a list of the experimental conditions and method steps you used for an experiment, and the results of that experiment in the form of two or three figures and/or tables. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Ａｌｌ course materials will be made freely available on WasedaMoodle. |
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| Bringing an advanced English/Japanese dictionary to class is recommended |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Student evaluations will be based on in-class performance, preparatory writing exercises, and drafts and final versions of research paper writing Students are expected to view all video lecture materials, and actively communicate with the teacher through MessageMyTeacher and the online forums. Students will also be required to complete all homework exercises, and submit an extended report at the end of the course. |
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| 3/23/2021 2:27:28 PM |