Scientific Writing for MSc in Computer Science

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The course focuses on skills needed in scientific writing: searching, selecting and reading scientific articles, making notes during reading, organising your material, and writing scientific article itself. We also discuss some writing-related ethical issues, like stealing, cheating, and plagiarism, which are not tolerated by the academic community. You will write an approximately 10-pages long scientific article on a topic given by the instructor following the department"s guidelines for master thesis and seminar papers. You will also practice reviewing articles. This course is only for MSc students majoring Computer Science! You are not allowed to participate if you have already passed the course!
Year Semester Date Period Language In charge
2014 spring 11.03-22.04. 4-4 English Tiina Niklander

Lectures

Time Room Lecturer Date
Tue 10-12 B119 Tiina Niklander 11.03.2014-22.04.2014

Exercise groups

Group: 1
Time Room Instructor Date Observe
Wed 14-16 A318 Tiina Niklander 12.03.2014—23.04.2014

General

Scientific Writing for MSc in Computer Science is obligatory course for Master-level students who have not done bachelor degree at University of Helsinki and are doing the degree in English.  Druring the course you will write one scientific overview article about a given topic. You canno repear the course later.

This Spring occurrence of the course is based on the Fall version. All the material is available on the Fall 2013 course page.

The  course's moodle pages are now available for paper submissions. The direct address is https://moodle.helsinki.fi/course/view.php?id=12813

Completing the course

During the course you will write one 10-page scientific report about a given topic. The paper will graded using the normal grading scale 0-5. The report must be written following the best scientific practices, like using proper references and citation techniques, as well as, proper scientific style and good written presentation. See the table about factors affecting the grades (PDF) and the evaluation subpage.

 

Weekly program:

Week 1: Topic selection, latex template

Week 2: Paper structure, bibtex-file

Week 3: First two (sub)sections written

Week 4: Half of the paper written

Week 5: Peer-reviews, fulle paper written

Week 6: Finalizing: abstract page, etc., paper submission

 

 

Literature and material

Zobel, J., Writing for Computer Science: The art of effective communication. 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 2005 or similar book about scientific writing.