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Academic Skills in Computer Science (ASiCS)
Lecture with exercise (SS 15) - LectureInformation
Bachelor students who want to have a course for 2 or 4cp to hook it into module "Vertiefung zur Bachelorarbeit" should visit Unit 1-3 resp. Unit 1-5. For them, this course is called "Vorbereitung der Bachelorarbeit (VBA). However, when VBA is hooked like this, the course can no longer be registered in a master module, because it is forbidden to register a course twice.
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Structure of the lecture
I - Introduction | ||
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2015-04-14 | 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. | ||
2015-04-14 | Study management | |
Self management for successful studies and research. Exam management. Types of reports in Bachelor and Master theses. General hints. | ||
2015-04-16 | 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. | ||
2015-04-21 | Basic Problem Solving Techiques | |
Aspect-oriented instantiation of honest serving men. ZOPP, B-POPP, ReLOA. | ||
2015-04-21 | Information Gathering and Reading | |
Gathering information. Screening of literature and trends. Reading methods such as RIK, SQ3R. Excerpting with concept maps. | ||
2015-05-05 | Solution Design | |
Solution design methods. Assessment of solution ideas. Multi-criteria analysis. Writing a solution paper and a design chapter. | ||
II Text Processing with LaTeX | ||
2015-04-30 | Introduction to LaTeX | |
Introduction to Latex, a powerful text processor for large books | ||
2015-05-07 | Tools around Latex | |
Bibtex, literature management, WYSWYG editors (Lyx). Visualization of elementary statistics. | ||
2015-06-04 | Creating Diagrams with R | [Slides] |
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III - Writing Papers | ||
2015-05-12 | Research Hypotheses | |
What is a research hypothesis? Automation and optimization hypotheses | ||
2015-05-14 | Public Holiday | |
Himmelfahrt. Why not go on a hike in the Saxonian Switzerland? | ||
2015-05-19 | Research methods in Software Engineering | |
The Shaw classification of research questions, results, validation. Success criteria and limits. Laws, observations, theories and models. | ||
2015-05-21 | Reviewing a Research Paper | |
(exercise) Reviewing a research paper. | ||
2015-05-21 | Writing a literature analysis paper | |
We work out the outline of a literature analysis paper on "service robots" | ||
2015-05-26 | Pentecost vacation | |
This week is lecture-free, Pentecost vacation. | ||
IV - Structuring Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays | ||
2015-06-02 | 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. | ||
2015-06-09 | Structuring Essays | |
Structuring Essays. 1-3-1 Essay. | ||
2015-06-16 | Structuring Complex Sentences | |
Compound and complex sentences. Links. Treppauf, treppab, step-up. Micropatterns such as Old2New. Microthreading with micropatterns. Foregrounding, backgrounding (setting emphasis) | ||
2015-06-16 | Textification with Bushs, Fishbones, and Whalebones | |
Forming fishbone sentences and paragraphs. Whalebones as fishbones with parallelism. Treppauf and treppab whalebones. | ||
2015-06-18 | no lecture | |
No lecture today. | ||
2015-06-23 | Microthreading | |
Local development of a paragraph by microthreading. Microthreading achieves coherence, without using controlling ideas, by micropatterns and horizontal links. | ||
V - Advanced Structuring and Argumenting | ||
2015-06-25 | 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, Definition, Repetition, Threading, Dialectic, Argumentative. | ||
2015-07-07 | Dialectic Development Schemes | |
Dialectic development: pivoting, comparison and contrast, strawman, rebuttal, libra. | ||
2015-07-07 | Argumentative Development | |
Argumentative development schemes, such as cause-effect (CE), opinion-reasons (OR). Flat and deep argumentation. Argumentation meshs. | ||
2015-07-09 | 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. | ||
2015-07-09 | Special Paragraphs | |
Structuring larger parts: introductions, abstracts, discussions, conclusions. | ||
VI - Talking and Collaborating | ||
2015-07-23 | How to Give An Interesting Research Talk | |
Special hints for interesting talks. In general, talks are also subject to development schemes. However, there are some special tricks. | ||
2015-07-21 | Presenting Evaluations | |
How to measure and benchmark experiments. How to visualize results with Gnuplot and R. | ||
2015-07-23 | Workshop Organization | |
How to Organize a Workshop (Wernhard/Fronhöfer) | ||
0000-00-00 (skipped) | Writing a research proposal | |
Structuring and writing a research proposal. Grant proposals. Travel grants. Partner management, consortia. | ||
VII - PhD | ||
2015-07-14 | 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. | ||
2015-07-16 | 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) | Advanced Problem Solving Techniques | |
Advanced problem solving methods for your PhD process, such as aspect-oriented problem analysis, innovation scorecard, group-based problem analysis. | ||
0000-00-00 (self study) | Advanced Information Gathering for PhD Students | |
Screening trends on websites of other research groups. | ||
0000-00-00 (self study) | How to Earn Money with the Results of Your PhD | |
Business development for your results. Technology Transfer. |