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Academic Skills in Computer Science (ASiCS)
Lecture with exercise (WS 13) - LectureInformation
The course is structured into 7 units. Students who want to acquire 6cp have to study all 7 units. Students who want to acquire 4cp should select 5 units. For 2cp, 3 units should be selected. For instance, a CL Master's student should select those units which are not relevant to PhD.
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Structure of the lecture
I - Introduction | ||
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2013-10-16 | What is science? | |
Different forms of science. Structural, technical science and technology research. Basic research and technology research. The limits of science. Data, information, knowledge and wisdom (DIKW). Interpretation according to value systems. | ||
2013-10-17 | The Research Process OISDR | |
The research process OISDR and its variants, in particular OISSDR for technical science. Examples for elementary techniques for every step. The 7 W-questions. Structuring and textification in overview. How to structure your Master or PhD thesis. | ||
2013-10-17 | Information Gathering and Reading | |
Gathering information. Screening of literature and trends. Reading methods such as RIK, SQ3R. | ||
2013-11-06 | Basic Problem Solving Techiques | |
Aspect-oriented instantiation of 6+1 honest men. ZOPP, PROBLOSS, GAP, VanGundy. | ||
II Text Processing with LaTeX | ||
2013-10-23 | Introduction to LaTeX | [LaTeX] |
Introduction to Latex, a powerful text processor (Peter Steinke) | ||
2013-10-24 | Tools around Latex | |
Bibtex, literature management, WYSWYG editors (Lyx). Visualization of elementary statistics. | ||
2013-10-30 | Presentations with LaTeX | |
Latex style Beamer for presenetations (Christoph Wernhard) | ||
2013-11-14 | Introduction to LaTeX packages | |
Introduction to LaTeX packages
TikZ (graphics) (Norbert Manthey) | ||
III - Writing Papers | ||
2013-11-07 | Research methods in Software Engineering | |
The Shaw classification of research questions, results, validation. Success criteria and limits. Laws, observations, theories and models. | ||
2013-11-13 | Reviewing a Research Paper | |
(exercise) Reviewing a research paper. | ||
2013-11-20 | Public Holiday | |
Why not go on a hike in the Saxonian Switzerland? | ||
2013-11-21 | Writing a research paper | |
(Christoph Wernhard) | ||
2013-11-27 | Writing a research paper II | |
(Christoph Wernhard) | ||
2013-11-28 | Citations and Bibliography | |
Attention! Canceled. Topic treated on Nov 27.
Citations - why - how - where? Publication indices | ||
IV - Structuring Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays | ||
2013-12-04 | Structuring Paragraphs by Points, Theses, and Controlling Ideas | |
Writing for Unity. Topics, controlling ideas make up theses (points). Points plus development schemes make up controllers. Naked and dressed writing. Controlling ideas as structural contracts between author and reader. Direct, smooth, suspended, pivot paragraphs. | ||
2013-12-05 | Structuring Essays | |
Structuring Essays. 1-3-1 Essay. | ||
2013-12-18 | Structuring Complex Sentences | |
Compound and complex sentences. Links. Treppauf, treppab. Micropatterns such as Old2New. Microthreading with micropatterns. | ||
2013-12-19 | Textification with Bushs, Fishbones, and Whalebones | |
Forming fishbone sentences and paragraphs. Whalebones as fishbones with parallelism. Treppauf and treppab whalebones. | ||
V - Advanced Structuring and Argumenting | ||
2014-01-08 | Microthreading | |
Local development of a paragraph by microthreading. Microthreading achieves coherence, without using controlling ideas, by micropatterns and horizontal links. | ||
2014-01-09 | Development Schemes | |
Global development of a paragraph by development scheme, as a part of the controller. 5-set scheme (rhombus). 5-steps. Development schemes: Decomposition, Threading, Dialectic, Argumentative. | ||
2014-01-15 | Dialectic Development Schemes | |
Dialectic development: pivoting, comparison and contrast, strawman, rebuttal, libra. | ||
0000-00-00 (self study) | Argumentative Development | |
Argumentative development schemes, such as cause-effect (CE), opinion-reasons (OR). Flat and deep argumentation. Argumentation meshs. | ||
2014-01-16 | The BoCoWiTo model of argumentation | |
The Toulmin model of argumentation. The Booth-Colomb-Williams-Toulmin extension (BoCoWiTo). BoCoWiTo-Combs and -Bushes. Claim-Reason-Evidence-Bushes and Meshs. | ||
2014-01-16 | Special Paragraphs | |
Structuring larger parts: introductions, abstracts, discussions, conclusions. | ||
VI - Talking and Collaborating | ||
2014-01-29 | How to Give A Research Talk I | |
Special hints for talks. (Bertram Fronhöfer) | ||
2014-01-30 | How to Give A Research Talk II | |
More tips for talking (Bertram Fronhöfer) | ||
2014-02-05 | GIT - a distributed version control system | |
(Norbert Manthey) | ||
2014-02-06 | Workshop Organization | |
How to Organize a Workshop (Wernhard/Fronhöfer) | ||
2014-02-06 | Writing a research proposal | |
Structuring and writing a research proposal. Grant proposals. Travel grants. Partner management, consortia. | ||
VII - PhD | ||
2014-01-22 | Advanced Information Gathering for PhD Students | |
Screening trends on websites of other research groups. | ||
0000-00-00 (self study) | Advanced Problem Solving Techniques | |
Advanced problem solving methods for your PhD process, such as aspect-oriented problem analysis, innovation scorecard, group-based problem analysis. | ||
2014-01-22 | Writing a PhD Thesis | |
The PhD process. The PhD hypothesis, validation. The focus statement. The PhD Outline. Methods to structure the report. The defense. Obstacles. | ||
2014-01-23 | Demonstrating the results of the PhD process | |
Different forms of research demonstrations and the involved activities in the PhD process. Research exposes and dossiers. | ||
0000-00-00 (self study) | How to Earn Money with the Results of Your PhD | |
Business development for your results. Technology Transfer. |