Course title
韓国語ステップアップ   [Intermediate Korean]
Course category specialized courses/ major subjects  Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 24  Semester Fall 
Course type Fall  Course code 02b2265
Instructor(s)
吉田 敏則   [YOSHIDA Toshinori]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering Office   Email address

Course description
This course is designed to develop students' ability to write clear, concise, and effective scientific English. Through a series of lectures, writing assignments, and peer review workshops, students will learn how to communicate scientific information in a way that is appropriate for academic and professional contexts. Topics covered include scientific style and tone, organization, and structure of scientific papers, writing effective abstracts, literature reviews, and scientific reports, and creating figures and tables. All lectures will be conducted in English.

Classroom code: ndwysbu
Expected Learning
1. To gain fundamental abilities in writing scientific English paper, which are essential for scientists and researchers.
2. To acquire basic skills to write clear and concise abstracts, literature reviews, and scientific reports that effectively communicate scientific information.
3. To develop an understanding of scientific writing conventions, including scientific style, tone, and vocabulary.
4. To create effective visual aids, including figures and tables, to communicate scientific data.
Course schedule
It is planned to be held by face-to-face lectures in 2023.
All lectures will be conducted in English only.

Lecture 1:
- Course introduction, course expectation.
- Structuring research.

Lecture 2:
- Structure of scientific communications, data, figures, tables, indexing literature, citing literature, copy rights.
- Topics of lab exercise, how to gain information. (writing assignment)

Lecture 3:
- Abstract preparation. (assignment review, writing assignment)

Lecture 4:
- Introduction section. (assignment review, writing assignment)

Lecture 5:
- Methodology section. (assignment review, writing assignment)

Lecture 6:
- Result section. (assignment review, writing assignment)

Lecture 7:
- Discussion section. (assignment review, group project)

Lecture 8:
- Conclusion section. (assignment review, writing assignment)

Lecture 9:
- Acknowledgements, reference section, authorship.

Lecture 10:
- Presentation of scientific research. (how to prepare and present)

Lecture 11:
- Students’ presentation 1

Lecture 12:
- Students’ presentation 2
Lecture 13:
- Presentation of a poster scientific research (how to prepare and present).

Lecture 14:
- Poster session 1

Lecture 15:
- Poster session 2
Prerequisites
The credit can be earned by attending 12 or more classes if they are inevitable circumstances to be absent.
Required Text(s) and Materials
None.
References
Assessment/Grading
- Contents and skill of writing assignment: 50%
- Contents and skill of oral presentation and also reviewing other students’ presentations: 30%
- Active participation and contribution to the course (opinions and questions): 20%
Message from instructor(s)
Course keywords
English, scientific research, writing,
Office hours
Ask questions after the lecture as much as possible. Ask by email in other cases.
Remarks 1
Remarks 2
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Lecture Language
English
Language Subject
English
Last update
4/5/2023 9:08:08 PM