Course Level:
Third Year
Academic Year:
2020/2021
Instructor: Dr. Reinhard Jetter
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Outline:
This course is a suite of interactive classes going step-by-step through the stages of a research project, the idea being to help 3rd-year (honours) students prepare for their 449 studies. The first half of the course is on preparations/planning and the second half on data analysis and thesis/paper writing. We shortcut the data acquisition step that would happen in between these two, and pretend to come back from reading week with all experiments done. In between, a guest lecture (by graduate students) is complementing my perspective:
| Week 1 | Intros |
| Week 2 | Nature of Science / Choosing a project |
| Week 3 | Literature searches / Archiving papers |
| Week 4 | Project planning / Citing |
| Week 5 | LMC digest / Proposal writing |
| Week 6 | Guest lecture |
| Week 7 | Data analysis |
| Week 8 | Making figures |
| Week 9 |
LMC digest / Making figures |
| Week 10 | Technical writing |
| Week 11 | Opus writing (thesis / paper) |
| Week 12 | CV / Job application / Interviews |
| Week 13 | Course reflections |