Academic Skills in Computer Science
Academic Skills in Computer Science
Course with SWS 2/2/0 (lecture/exercise/practical) in SS 2019
Lecturer
Tutor
SWS
- 2/2/0
Modules
Examination method
- Oral exam
Lecture series
This lecture is aiming at providing basic skills in reading, understanding, and evaluating scientific articles, and in presenting scientific results in presentations and publications. It includes topics like citations and bibliographic data in scientific publications, selection of topics, examples, and results for an oral presentation, preparation of slides and other materials for oral presentations as well as selecting, structuring, and writing scientific articles. The lecture will include practical training in reading and reviewing scientific articles, in preparing and giving presentations, and in setting up and writing short scientific articles. The topics will be selected from Computational Logic. Hence, some familiarity with propositional and first-order logic is assumed.
Dates
The lectures and exercise classes generally take place on the following dates:
- Lecture: Tuesday, DS3 (11:10–12:40) in room APB E005
- Exercise: Tuesday DS5 (14:50–16:20) in room APB E001
- Due to preparations for Output 2019, there will be no exercise on 2019-06-18
Mock Conference on Academic Skills in Computer Science
We are conducting a mock conference to demonstrate the paper submission and reviewing process. Submissions are currently open, see Exercise 9.4 for details.Several general guides to writing and to scientific writing in computer science in particular exist.
The lecture most strongly uses:
- Justin Zobel: Writing for Computer Science 3rd edition, Springer, 2014.
Some relevant content is also found in:
- Christian W. Dawson: Projects in Computing and Information Systems: A Student’s Guide 2nd edition, Addison Wesley, 2009
Subscribe to events of this course (icalendar)
| Lecture | Introduction and Motivation | DS3, April 2, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Lecture | Research and Publishing in Computer Science | DS3, April 9, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Research & Publishing | DS5, April 9, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Judging Research Quality | DS3, April 16, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Finding Literature | DS5, April 16, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Information Gathering and Reading | DS3, April 23, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Reading Literature | DS5, April 23, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Planning Your Research | DS3, April 30, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Reading More Literature | DS5, April 30, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Writing research reports | DS3, May 7, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Structuring Research | DS5, May 7, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Style and language | DS3, May 14, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Towards Writing | DS5, May 14, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Format, Layout, and Punctuation | DS3, May 21, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Writing and Structure | DS5, May 21, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Typesetting in LaTeX | DS3, May 28, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Writing & LaTeX | DS5, May 28, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | LaTeX / Persuasive writing | DS3, June 4, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Advanced LaTeX | DS5, June 4, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Oral Presentations (1) | DS3, June 18, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Lecture | (Cancelled) | DS3, June 25, 2019 in APB E005 | |
| Exercise | More Advanced LaTeX | DS5, June 25, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Oral Presentations (2) | DS3, July 2, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | Oral Presentations | DS5, July 2, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
| Lecture | Good academic conduct and research ethics | DS3, July 9, 2019 in APB E005 | File 1, File 2 |
| Exercise | More Presentations | DS5, July 9, 2019 in APB E001 | File |
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