| Course title | |||||
| 科学英語(岩手大学) [Scientific English(IU)] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 1 | ||
| Department | Year | 1～1 | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 71vd51008 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 山﨑 朗子（岩）, 片山 泰章（岩）, 田中 知己 [YAMAZAKI Akiko, KATAYAMA Masaaki, 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. |
| 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) search scientific papers associated with their research topics (2) write reports based on their own research work and to effectively communicate with other researchers and scientists in English. (3) write research proposals in English. Corresponding criteria in the Diploma policy: See the curriculum maps. https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/ |
| Course schedule |
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Recture No.１〜８ ・Similarities and differences among scientific journals and writing styles ・ Choosing appropriate research titles and captions for figures and tables (II) ・The main components of a scientific report (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, References, Acknowledgement) ・Commonly used sentence/paragraph connectors in scientific reports (II) ・Choosing sentence/paragraph connectors in scientific reports (exercise) ・ Identifying and correcting mistakes in scientific reports ・ Writing reports based on "model" Laboratory experiments ・Writing reports based on "model" Field experiments ・Writing reports based on "model" Questionnaire-based surveys ・Citing references in scientific reports (II) ・ Presenting statistical results in scientific reports (II) ・ Writing of acknowledgement ・Commonly used expressions in oral/poster presentations ・Presentation and submission of final reports |
| Prerequisites |
| In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University and using the lecture handouts as well as the references specified below. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| To be announced during the lectures. |
| References |
| To be announced during the lectures. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Assessment of students will be done on the basis of attendance, completion of assignments. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
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| Office hours |
| If you have a question, please e-mail me. (masaaki@iwate-u.ac.jp) |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
| Language Subject |
| English |
| Last update |
| 3/8/2022 1:38:08 PM |