Scientific Communication (Vetenskaplig Kommunikation) - an Introduction

This document is the entry page to the doctoral course *Scientific Communiction* (Vetenskaplig Kommunikation) at the department of Computer and Systems Sciences of Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

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Scientific Communication, 5 credits. Brief course description

Kursen kommer att ges höstterminen 1998 med början i oktober. Sannolikt kommer den att ges torsdagar mellan kl. 15 och 18. Intresserade skall skicka anmälan till Eva Jansson, evaj@dsv.su.se.

Introduktionsmöte är onsdagen den 23 september kl 15.00 - ca 17.00. Sal: 312, Isafjordsgatan 30 C.

Follow this link to the intra-net of Scientific Communication 1998/9.

Co-ordinator Prof. Janis A. Bubenko jr, DSV, 08-161615, janis@dsv.su.se

Teachers

Prof. Janis A. Bubenko jr, DSV, 08-161615, janis@dsv.su.se

Prof. Jacob Palme, DSV, 08-161667, jpalme@dsv.su.se

Univ.lektor David Jones, Engelska Institutionen, SU, 08-163589, jonesd@engelska.su.se

Motivation for the course

Many more Swedish papers and presentations would be accepted for international scientific conferences if the presentation was right.

Objectives

The objectives are: to train PhD students in their first year in

• how to write articles, abstracts, reviews, and reports for acceptance at international conferences and publications (both from a language and from a contents point of view)
• how to prepare proposals for projects within the European Community programme ESPRIT
• how to access information about different topics, research results, conferences, etc., in paper-based publications and on the WWW
• how to review and assess submissions to scientific conferences.

Contents

Discussion and review of different kinds of publications such as theses and articles reporting theoretical and/or empirical results, survey articles, position papers, book reviews, abstracts, etc. Exercises in writing (content as well as language) own abstracts, reviews, and papers. Students not familiar with WWW will be initially given additional lectures on how to work with the WWW and how to prepare their own pages for the WWW. All students will form a Program Committee and be assigned a number of real submitted papers to review and evaluate (about 6-7 papers per student). Students will then be allocated accepted papers for presentation in a simulated conference.

Note: the whole course is based on the use of the WWW and the use of e-mail for messages and for delivering student assignments

Prerequisites

The student must be registered as a doctoral or licentiate student at SU or at KTH.

Course Requirements

Examination is through electronic reporting of assigned work (abstracts, reviews, articles, etc.), through formally reviewing submitted papers, and through oral presentation at the conference.

Time

Lectures 24 h, plus time for Program Committee meetings, the conference, and time for exploring the WWW.

Modified 9 Sept.,1998 by Janis Bubenko jr