Lecture Summaries 4:The Introduction

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

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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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Lecture 1: The Scientific Articile
Lecture 2: History of the Scientific Article
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Powerpoint Presentations: Week 2The Science Article: Definition & History

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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PowerPoint Presentation 9:1 - Book Reviews

Lecture Summary: 9:1 Literature Reviews

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 1, Week 9 on Literature Reviews.

Lecture Summary 9:1 - Literature Review

PowerPoint Presentations: 9:1 Literature Reviews

Please find below links to pdf files of the PowerPoint presentation for Lesson 1, Week 8 on Reviews of Literature

PowerPoint Presentation 8:1 - Literature Reviews

Online Science Journals:Nature Genetics>

Nature Genetics publishes research in genetics. It encompasses genetic and functional genomic studies on human traits and on other model organisms, including mouse, fly, nematode and yeast. Current emphasis is on the genetic basis for common and complex diseases and on the functional mechanism, architecture and evolution of gene networks, studied by experimental perturbation.

To see it go here

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'Science' Article of the Week 8: Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building

IOWA CITY, IA—University of Iowa neuroscientists studying spatial learning and the effects of stress on memory announced Tuesday that a little son-of-a-bitch mouse ruined an experiment on cognitive performance by effortlessly navigating a maze that researchers spent nearly a year designing and constructing.
Onion News April 19, 2008 | Issue 44•16

To read more go here

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Lecture Summary : Week 8: 2Tables

Please find below links to copies of the Lecture Summary for Lesson 2, Week 8 on Tables.

Lecture Summary 8:2 - Tables

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Powerpoint Presentation: Week 8:2Tables

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PowerPoint Presentation 8:2 - Tables

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Lecture Summary : Week 7: 1Acknowledgments & Citations

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Lecture Summary 8:1 - Acknowledgment & Citations


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