Additional Readings:Formal Letters & Statements of Purpose

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Find below links to some additional readings for Week 12.

Formal Letters:

1. Rules for Writing Formal Letters [nvtc.ee]

2. How to Write a Formal Business Letter [eHow.com]

3. Letter Writing [Hornbill]

Statements of Purpose
1. The Statement of Purpose [statementofpurpose.com]

2. How to Write a Statement of Purpose [wikihow.com]

3. Writing a Winnning Statement of Purpose [San Jose State University ]

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Lecture Summaries:Formal Letters & Statements of Purpose

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 12:

Lecture 1: Formal Letters

Lecture 2: Statements of Purpose

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Powerpoint Presentations 12:Formal Letters & Statements of Purpose

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Find below links to the Powerpoint Presentations for Week 12:

Lecture 1: Formal Letters

Lecture 2: Statements of Purpose

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Additonal Readings 11:Conference Posters & Powerpoints

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Please find belo some links to some additional reading material for week 11:

Conference Posters:

1. Design Gallery - Conference Posters [Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne]

2. Advice on Designing Scientific Posters [Swarthmore College]

3. Tips on Preparing a Conference Poster [Wisconsin Tobacco Control Board]

4. Creating Posters Using Free Templates [studentposters.co.uk]

Powerpoints

1. Making PowerPoint Slides. Avoiding the Pitfalls of Bad Slides. [International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)]

2. PowerPoint Presentation Advice [Mike Splane]

3. PowerPoint Presentations:The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [SHKaminski.com]

4. Top Ten Slide Tips [Garr Reynolds]

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Lecture Summaries 11:Conference Posters & Powerpoints

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 11:

Lecture 1: Conference Posters

Lecture 2: Powerpoints

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Powerpoint Presentations 11:Conference Posters & Powerpoints

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Please find below links to Powerpoint presentations for Week 11:

Lecture 1: Conference Posters

Lecture 2: Powerpoints

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Assessment Task 3:Presentation Timetables

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Please find below copies of the timetables for the Presentations in weeks 13 to 15.

If your name is not on the timetable, please let me know by email which of the avialable times left you would prefer.

I'll try and update the timetables every couple of days.
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Additional Readings 10Literature & Book Reviews

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Please find below links to some additonal reading material for Week 10:

Literature Reviews:

1. How to Write a Literature Review [Birmingham University]

2. How to... write a literature review [Emerald Press]

3. How to Write a Literature Review [Sports Science]

Book Reviews:

1. Writing the Review [National Academic Advising Association]

2. Writing the Academic Book Review [Wendy Belcher]

3. Reading and writing book reviews across the disciplines [James Hartley]

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Lecture Summaries 10:Literature & Book Reviews

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for week 10:

Lecture 1: Literature Reviews
Lecture 2: Book Reviews
Webpage Link: emails
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Powerpoint PresentationsLiterature & Book Reviews

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Please find below links to the PowerPoint Presentations for Week 10:

Lecture 1: Literature Reviews

Lecture 2: Book Reviews & emails

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Assessment Task 3:Class Presentation

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As noted at the beginning of the semester and again last week the last three weeks of this semester will be taken up with presentations. The ‘writing in science component’ focus of these presentations will be on the PowerPoint Presentation .

Each of you will be given 12 minutes to present and another 3 minutes will be set aside for questions. If possible, I’d like you to give me a copy of the PowerPoint on the day you give your presentation. We will try and enforce time fairly strictly so you will have to ensure that you stick fairly close to the time limit.

The topic of your presentation is up to you. It could for example be on:

• a current research activity
• your laboratory
• your Undergraduate University
• your discipline or sub-discipline
• an issue in Science policy

The only proviso is that the topic be related to Science


Finally, while we will deal with this later when we look at the genre of PowerPoint's, it is worth while remembering that for this presentation you will be talking in English to an audience who while for the most part are scientifically literate are not by any means experts in your field and do not, for the most part, have English as their first language
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Additional Readings 9Acknowledgments & Tables

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Please find below links to some additional readings for Week 9:

Acknowledgements:
1. 'Acknowledgements Guide'! [Instytut Filologii Angielskiej]
2. Writing Dissertation Acknowledgements [yourdissertation.com]
Tables etc..
1. Point form, tables, graphs and charts [NSW Dept. Ed, Australia]
2. Quality of Graphs in Scientific Journals: An Exploratory Study [Eileen K Schofield]
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Lecture Summaries 9:Acknowledgments & Tables

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 9:

Lecture Summary 1: Acknowledgments
Lecture Summary 2: Tables
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Powerpoint Presentations 9:Acknowledgements & Tables

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Please find below links to the Powepoint Presentations for Week 9:

Lecture 1: Acknowledgements
Lecture 2: Table
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Assement Task 2:Abstract

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For your second Assessment Task, I’d like you to provide an abstract for an article for a journal or a conference. The details with respect to the format and length of the abstract should be taken from the ‘advice for authors’ section which is usually contained on the journal / conference homepage.

In order to find this information first go to the home page of the journal [or conference] and once there, click on the advice to authors button [[in the case of journals it is usually located in either the left or right hand column]. Once there, stroll down to find the information related to the format of the abstract.

If you are having any trouble locating a journal . You can go to http://www.science/direct.com [a link to which can be found on simon’s writingroom.blogspot.com and look for a journal related to your field.
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Additional Readings 7:The Discussion

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Please find below some links to some addition reading for the theme: "The Discussion"

1. Writing up Research: Discussion [AIT, Bangkok]
2. Browns Plan [anon]
3. Communicative moves in the discussion section of research articles [Matthew Peacock]
4. Genre analysis, and the social sciences: An investigation of the structure of research article discussion sections in three disciplines [Richard Holmes]
5. Discussion [Kim Kastens et al, Columbia University]

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Lecture Summaries 7:The Discussion

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 7:

Lecture Summary 1: The Discussion [i]
Lecture Summary 2: The Discussion [ii]

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Powerpoint Presentation 7:The Discussion

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Please find below links to the Powerpoint Presentations for Week 7:

Lecture 1: The Discusssion [i]
Lecture 2: The Discusssion [ii]

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Message from Simon:Sunday 12th October 2008

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Dear fellow learner, hope all is going well. I'm just writing to let you know that I am in the process of posting the summary sheets for each of the lectures we have had so far. These can be obtained under the heading 'Summaries' a link to which can be found in the 'Blog Elements' list located in the column on the left of the blog. I also want to let you know that from this week I will be posting some issues of various science and science related magazines . I have previously posted information and links to the websites of many of these magazines [see here] but over the next couple of weeks will post sample of the magazines themseleves in pdf format ['Blog Elements' link: Magazines]. Also check out the photos and blurbs which I will be posting on the Science at KAIST: 2 blogspot over the next couple of days. For now, however, best wishes, be good and happy,

Simon
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Additional Readings 6:The Results

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Please find below some links to some addition readings for the theme: "The Results"
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1. Writing Up The Results [Asian Institute of Technology]

2. Writing Up Your Results [GradPsych]

3. Writing Up and Presenting the Results [World Agroforestry Center]

4. Undertanding/Writing the Results Section [Valdosta State University]

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Lecture Summaries 6:The Results

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 6:

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Lecture 1: The Results [i]

Lecture 2: The Results [ii]

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Powerpoint Presentations 6:The Results

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Please find below links to the Powerpoint Presentations for Week 6:

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Lecture 1: The Results [i]

Lecture 2: The Results [ii]

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Additional Readings 5:Material & Methods

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Please find below some links to some addition readings for the theme of Week 5: Material & Methods.

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1. Material & Methods [University of Richmond]

2. Writing Manual for Scientific Papers [Anderson & Large]

3. Methods and Materials [Bates College]

4. Methods Section [University of Wisconsin-Madison]

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Lecture Summaries 5:The Methods & Materials

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 5:

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Lecture 1: Method & Materials [i]

Lecture 2: Method & Materials [ii]

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Powerpoint Presentations 5:Methods & Materials

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Please find below links to the Powerpoint Presentations for Week 5.
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Lecture 1: Methods & Materials [i]

Lecture 2: Methods & Materils [ii]

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Lecture Summaries 4:The Introduction

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 4:
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Lecture 1: The Introduction [i]
Lecture 2: The Introduction [ii]
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Additional Reading 4: The Introduction

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Please find below links to some additonal material on the topic for Lesson 1: Week 4 - "The Introduction [Part I]"
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1. The Scientific Paper: Introduction [George Mason University]
2. The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It [University of Toronto]
3. The Literature Review [University of Queensland]
4. Literature Review [Wikipedia]
5. Academic Writer [VLC Hong Kong]
6. What is the purpose of research? Virginia Cano
7. Writing and Introduction: [Online Writing Lab]
8. Introductions To Research Papers [Central European University]
9. The Scientific Paper: Introduction [George Mason University]
10. The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It [University of Toronto]
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Powerpoint Presentations 4:The Introduction [i] & [ii]

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Please find below links to the Powerpoint Presentations for Week 4.

Lecture 1: The Introduction [i]
Lecture 2: The Introduction [ii]
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Lecture Summaries 3:Titles & Abstracts

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for week 3

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Lecture 1: Titles

Lecture 2: Abstracts

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Assessment Task 1:Author Blurb

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Write an 'author blurb' about yourself.

The blurb should:
1. be between 100 and 150 words.
2. contain and the information about your qualifications and where they were obtained
3. conclude with your email address.
Copies of the blurbs will be put up on the web page.

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If you'd like to read up on author blurbs, see for example:

1. How to write an Authur Blurb [The Penguin Blog]

2. Writing Great Blurbs [Mayra Calvani]

3. Learn to Market Yourself: How to Write an “About the Author” for Your Book [freeself-publishing.com]

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Powerpoint Presentations 3:Titles & Abstracts

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Please find below links to the Powerpoint Presentations for Week 2.

Lecture 1: Titles
Lecture 2: Abstracts
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Additional Reading 3:Titles & Abstracts

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Please find below links to some additonal material on the topics for Week 3.

Titles:

1. Choosing Newsletter Article Titles [Alexander]

2. Choosing Winning Article Titles [Hunt]

3. The importance of writing a good title and abstract [BioMed Central]

4. Writing a Scientific Paper Titles and Abstracts [Thrower]

5. What Every Good Writer Needs To Know About Titles [Cohen]

6. The Value of Article Titles in Bibliographic Citations [Editor: Current Contents]

Abstracts:
1. Science Fair Abstract [Science Buddies]
2. Abstract [Wikipedia]
3. Abstracts[BioMed Central]
4. Abstract Section [Dodd, J.S]
5. Abstracts [University of North Carolina]

Additional Readings: 2The Scientific Article

For additonal material on this weeks topic you may choose to look at:
The Scientific Article: From Galileo's New Science to the Human Genome
Also have a look at the introductory chapters of the following books at the amazon.com website:
- Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Studies in English Language) by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
- Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present by Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon, and Michael S. Reidy
- The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour by Joseph E. Harmon & Alan G. Gross (Editors)
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Lecture Summaries 2:The Scientific Article

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 2:
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Lecture 1: The Scientific Articile
Lecture 2: History of the Scientific Article
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Powerpoint Presentations: Week 2The Science Article: Definition & History

Please find below links to the Powerpoint for Week 2.

Lecture 1: The Science Article: A Definition

Lecture 2: The Science Article: A History

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Lecture Summaries 1:Introductions & Definitions

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Please find below links to the Lecture Summaries for Week 1.

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Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Definitions
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Powerpoint Presentations 1:Introductions & Definitions

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Please find below links to Powerpoint Presentations for Week 1.

Lecture 1: Introductions
Lecture 2: Definitions

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Welcome From Simon:07 September 2008

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Welcome to the blogspot for Science Writing in English at the Korea Advanced Institute of cience and Technology [KAIST] located in the Korean city of Daejeon. The aim of this blogsite is - in addition to providing copies of the powerpoints and lecture summaries of each learning session / lecture - to provide you links to resources from the internet related to each topic covered during th course of the semester. Spend a little time navigating around the site to see what is avaible. You can also check in the left hand collumn to see links to the posting for past writing courses. For now, all that is left me to do is to say "Welcome" again and to wish that you have a great semester.

Simon.

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Science Article of the Week 10: Stiction Nanotubes Mimic Van Der Waals Adhesion In Geckos

Nanotubes are the big hope for the first decade of the 21st century. They offer promise to produce a new class of composite materials that are stronger than conventional composites for ue in aircraft and vehicles. Now researchers at Purdue University say they can precisely measure the forces required to peel tiny nanotubes off of other materials, opening up the possibility of creating standards for nano-manufacturing and harnessing a gecko's ability to walk up walls. Scientific Blogging 28 April 2008

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Online Science 'Journal': Scientific Blogging

Scientific Blogging! is a Science 2.0 community and big believers in open science. As a result they encourage people to jump right in and start writing. The reason they are an open science community because they believe that science is important and the better educated people are, the greater their impact on policy. By using their science gets directly into the hands of people. They don't tell anyone what to write, they don't hand pick the writers because they agree with any ideology ther have, they don't demand that you already be popular before you can write on the blog. If you have science knowledge, they want you to share it When you sign up, you have one of two options - columnist and registered member. Registered members can vote up articles they like, leave comments, write their own blogs and use the chat functions. Columnists do all that and can write feature articles that appear on the front page. They also have featured authors but you can't become one of those until you have been around for a while.

To check it out go here

PowerPoint Presentations: 10:2 PowerPoint Presentations

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 2, Week 10 on PowerPoint Presentations

Lecture Summary 10:2 - PowerPoint Presentations

Lecture Summary: 10:2 Powerpoint Presentations

Please find below links to copies of the pdf files for Lesson 2, Week 10 on PowerPoint Presentation

Lecture PowerPoint 10:2 - PowerPoint Presentations

Lecture Summary: 10:1 Conference Posters

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 1, Week 10 on Conference Posters

Lecture Summary 10:1 - Conference Posters

PowerPoint Presentations: 10:1 Conference Posters

Please find below link to the pdf file of the PowerPoint Presentation for Lesson 2, Week 10 on Conference Posters.

PowerPoint Presentation 10:2 - Conference Posters

Science Article of the Week: Avoiding Pedestrians With the Help of Lasers

Hanyoung Lee wants you to be seen. The South Korea-based product designer devised a prototypical warning device to prevent pedestrian strikes along roadway crosswalks. It's called the Virtual Wall, a visual barrier created from plasma laser beams. The system casts larger-than-life images of pedestrians in eye-grabbing red across the roadway, at a location where such peds are likely to be crossing. Popular Science 28 April 2008

To read more go here

Online Science Journal: Popular Science

Popular Science has been a leading source of science and technology news since its inception way back in 1872. PopSci.com first came online in 1999, and in 2008 they launched their biggest redesign yet: a new site built in Drupal that’s easy to navigate and chock-full of exciting daily content. The staff at PopSci.com believe that the new layout is also highly customizable, so finding the content you're interested in is a breeze. The whole site is organized by keywords, so for instance, if you click the "robot" tag, you'll see only articles about robots. You can also search in the traditional way, or use our channel buttons to instantly sort content by category. And the latest stories about the topics that interest you most can be sent right to your newsreader with our custom RSS feeds.

To read go here

Lecture Summary: 9:2 Book Reviews

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 2, Week 9 on Book Reviews

Lecture Summary 8:2 - Book Reviews

PowerPoint Presentation: 9:2 Book Reviews

Please find below links to pdf files of the PowerPoint presentation for Lesson 2, Week 9 on Book Reviews

PowerPoint Presentation 9:1 - Book Reviews