Engineering Postgraduate Research Essentials - GSOE9400
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
School: Faculty of Engineering
Course Outline: http://legacy.handbook.unsw.edu.au
Campus: Sydney
Career: Research
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
Excluded: GSOE9011
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course is designed to develop research and communication skills and strategies that would support your research program, and in particular, to prepare you for progression from year 1 to year 2 of your research program. There are weekly guest lectures and tutorials, Moodle course activities and assignments. The course themes include: Formulating a research topic, managing a research project, locating and critically evaluating the literature, engineering research methods, writing about research, speaking about research, academic integrity. The course concludes with a mini-conference on students proposed research topics.
The course objectives are to develop:
The course objectives are to develop:
- An increased awareness about the ways successful academic writers structure their writing, and the register of language appropriate for thesis and research writing
- Systematic approach in managing research reading and research writing
- Increased confidence and improved skills in speaking about research to a range of audiences
- Awareness of strengths and weaknesses in communicating and appropriate strategies for improvement.
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