SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION (CITS4008)
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Unit organisation
Lecture topics Writing and Publishing Skills 1. LaTeX (pdf, another talk pdf, and its latex source which requires image.pdf to draw) 2. General writing skills (lecture pdf and additional notes pdf) 3. Composition (lecture pdf and additional notes) 4. Inclusion of symbolic terms (lecture pdf and additional notes) 5. Citations and References (lecture pdf, bibtex explained pdf, with latex source and bibliography source. See also some additional notes here) 6. Writing a thesis or a paper (lecture pdf). Additional notes: Revising a draft (pdf), Publishing (pdf) and Writing a thesis (pdf)
7. No Teaching Week. Writing Research Papers 8. Planning a paper (pdf) 9. Designing and analysing experiments (pdf)
Presentation Skills 10.Giving a talk (pdf presentation and pdf notes) 11. Designing and writing an academic web page (pdf presentation and pdf notes) 12. Writing a CV (pdf). 13. A workshop conducted by the UWA Careers Centre The invited lecture in 2018 will be delivered by Ryan Whiddett (TBC). The material used will include Employability Strategies Factsheet, How to develop and use your Linkedin profile, Resume Fact Sheet, and Cover Letter Fact Sheet
Some useful links UWA's Policy on the Use of Non-Discriminatory Language UWA's Library Guide to Harvard Reference Style The ACM Computing Classification System (1998) |
Aims This unit will give you practical skills in communication in the computational sciences. There is no examination. The assessment for this unit will be derived entirely from a Communications Portfolio of written work that you will produce throughout the semester.
Assessment
Portfolio (due 12 noon Monday 28 May 2018 (week 13)
Latex Templates LaTeX template for a Research Proposal LaTeX template for a Paper |
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