PSU CS569/669 – OHSU GEN569/669
Scholarship Skills, Winter 2009
Lecture Notes
Here are Powerpoint and PDF files containing the slides from the
lectures. The files will be revised shortly before the lectures are
given; if you read ahead, you will see last year's material. This isn't
bad, but you should be aware that the amount of material covered in any
particular class may be more or less than last year.
- Lecture 1 (ppt,
pdf) —
Introduction; conducting background research
- Lecture 2 (ppt, pdf) — Reading for content.
- Lecture 3 (ppt, pdf) — Library resources.
Library links can be found here.
- Lecture 4 (ppt, pdf) — Core rules for
better writing
- Lecture 5 (pdf)
— Mechanics: spelling, numbers, punctuation and so forth
- Lecture 6 (pdf) —
Mathematical notation, text elements, style
- Lecture 7 (pdf)
— Supplemental material.
- Lecture 8 (pdf)
— Examples, Citations, references, side-bars (or boxes).
Black's 5-minute talk (pdf)
- Lecture 9 (pdf)
— Structure of a paper.
- Lecture 10 (pdf) —
Intro to LaTeX and bibTeX.
- Lecture 11 (pdf)
— The writing process. Getting Started.
- Lecture 12 (pdf) —
Poster
presentations
- Lecture 13 (pdf) — Ethics
- Lecture 14 (pdf) —
Conference papers
- Lecture 15 (pdf)
Journal articles and theses, RPE.
- Lecture 16 (pdf) Materials for oral presentations
- Lecture 17 (pdf)
— Delivering oral presentations
- Lecture 18 (pdf) —
Reviewing
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