COMP80142 Academic Writing and Impact Studies
Jon Shapiro and Bijan Parsia
2017 – 2018
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Announcements
- Welcome to COMP80142: Academic Writing and Impact Studies
Deadlines
- 16 February, 2018: Everyone must submit a full first draft of their written
piece to their group file store.
- Deadline for your revised written
piece: 2 March, 2018.
- Deadline for all writing: feedback reviews and final draft. your written
piece: 9 March, 2018.
Course description
Follow this link for the course unit description and syllabus.
Lecturers
Locations and times
Location: Monday, 12–13, IT 407.
Location: Wednesdays, 13–14, Kilburn 2.19.
Please see below for the session schedule and key dates as well as the group
assignment.
Coursework
You will all
- write a short paper that will be read, reviewed and discussed in
small groups sessions,
- provide written reviews and take part in the
discussion of short papers in Blackboard,
- take part in the discussion of short papers in weekly
group sessions,
- take turns at chairing the discussion of short papers in weekly
group sessions,
- revise, improve and resubmit your paper taking into account the comments
received via Blackboard and class discussions,
- actively take part in weekly discussions on a selection of seminar topics.
Your first task
Your first task will be to submit a first draft of
your written piece. The deadline is
- Fri 16 February, 2018
We advise that you decide quickly what type of paper you
wish to write and start writing.
Do discuss this with your supervisor.
The written piece
The short paper you have to write should be one of the following:
- a research proposal (CDT students, Jan-12 starters)
- a short end-of-first-year report (3 year students on normal path)
- a taster project report (CDT students)
- a workshop paper (3 year students on normal path)
The paper should be 5 pages long without references. It should include
- Title
- Summary/Abstract
- Introduction
- Main part
- Conclusions/concluding remarks
- References
Here are some suggestions of what to include:
- Research proposal
- the objectives of your proposed research
- importance and potential impact
- previous work in the area
- how you are proposing to tackle the research
- timeframe of each stage
- methods/procedures and materials/facilities
- Short end-of-first-year report
- the objectives of your research
- importance and potential impact
- previous work in the area
- materials and methods/procedures
- any preliminary results and ongoing work
- workplan for remainder of project
- thesis outline
- concluding remarks
- Taster project report
- the objectives of the taster project
- previous work in the area
- materials and methods/procedures
- results
- discussion including importance and potential impact of results
- concluding remarks
- Workshop paper
- the objectives of research
- previous work in the area
- materials and methods/procedures
- (preliminary) results and ongoing work
- discussion including importance and potential impact of results
- conclusions and future work
Assessment
100% coursework, 0% exam
Session schedule and key dates 2017–2018
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Mo 29 Jan Welcome: Introduction and Overview (JLS) [Slides]
We 31 Jan Paper mechanics: genre, venue, purpose, audience
prose style, organisation (BP) [Slides]
Mo 5 Feb Presenting mathematics and algorithms (JLS) [Slides]
We 7 Feb Follow up (BP) [Slides]
Mo 12 Feb Ethical aspects, referencing, crediting,
malpractice (JLS) [Slides]
We 14 Feb The Reviewing process (BP?) [Slides]
Fri 16 February First Draft due by everyone to Blackboard. Review Copy due X1 and X2.
Mon 19 Feb Review session 1
Reviewed X1 and X2
Chair X2 and X3
Review Copy due X3 and X4
Blackboard reviewing and discussion 19 – 25 Feb
We 21 Feb Apr How to achieve impact (BP) [Slides]
Mon 26 Feb Review session 2
Reviewed X3 and X4
Chair X4 and X5
Review Copy due X5 and X6
Blackboard reviewing and discussion 26 – 2 March
Wed 28 Feb Review session 3
Reviewed X5 and X6
Chair X6 and X1
Blackboard reviewing and discussion 28 – 5 March
Week of 5 March e 9 March Further Blackboard discussions of revised papers and paper revision continues.
Fri 9 March
Final draft of paper due on Blackboard.
We 7 March Wrap up — How to achieve impact
The groups have been assigned as follows.
Group Name
A1 Nada Al Taweraqi
A2 Ahmed Alghamdi
A3 Faisal Albalwy
A4 Gavin Abercrombie
A5 Abdullah Alfahaid
A6 Nikita Abramovs
B1 Ghadah Alghamdi
B2 Abdulrahman Alnaeem
B3 Moteb Alghamdi
B4 Najlaa Alghamdi
B5 Nouf Alghanmi
B6 Salem Aljaneh
C1 Ahmed Bhayat
C2 Asim Alwabel
C3 Jonathan Carlton
C4 Yuan Chai
C5 Manal Binkhonain
C6 Andreas Andronikakis
D1 Dominic Duxbury
D2 Andrew Elliott
D3 Joshua Dawes
D4 Arvid Fahlström Myrman
D5 Jonathan Crawford
D6 Jacopo De Berardinis
E1 Atefeh Heydari
E2 Ahmed Ibrahim
E3 Christian Kindermann
E4 William Griggs
E5 Chao Fang
E6 Gabriel Fonseca guerra
F1 Markos Kynigos
F2 Yu Li
F3 Eleni Maragkoudaki
F4 Andrzej Kucik
F5 Kristiyan Manev
F6 Zewen Liu
G1 Dario Panada
G2 Michail Papadimitriou
G3 Rui Qin
G4 Adam Perrett
G5 Terence Morley
G6 Orion Papadakis
H1 Abeer Rajhi
H2 Pejman Saeghe
H3 Michael Rawson
H4 Merve Selcuk simsek
H5 Charles Reynolds
H6 Salim Salim
I1 Rigina Skeva
I2 Bushra Sikander
I3 Miguel Silva
I4 Siok wah Tay
I5 Daqian Shi
I6 Emma Tattershall
J1 Anuj Vaishnav
J2 Thy Tran
J3 Philip Thompson
J4 Yu Wan
J5 Jaime Trivino
J6 Michail Vamvakaris
K1 Heng Zhang
K2 Hongyuan Xie
K3 He Yu
K4 Yuzhe Zang
K5 Maria Xekalaki
K6 Crystal Wu
Essential:
Domain specific:
Examples of very well-written computer science papers
These have been moved to the School
wiki. Feel free to add examples which you find.
Useful:
Of Further Interest:
Concerning Research and Surviving a PhD
Journal Format Theses
A journal format thesis presents its content in the form of a
collection of units suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed
journal or conference. The 'papers' do not have to be published or
even submitted. These were previously called "alternative format theses".
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