CIS 610: Writing in Computer Research
Course Syllabus
Fall 2007: Th 10:00-11:20 am, 200 Deschutes
Instructor: Professor Sarah Douglas, 343 Deschutes, phone 346-3974, email: douglas@cs.uoregon.edu. Office hours: 2-3pm TuTh or by appointment.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.
Description: This course is intended to help graduate students learn to write scientific papers for publication. We will follow a workshop format with peer review and discussion of writing samples. Students will be required to provide frank but constructive criticism of writing samples provided by other students, and to accept criticism in the same spirit.
Mailing alias is Òcis610wrÓ Website is http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/classes/07F/cis610wr
Required Readings: The text for this course is Writing for Computer Science 2nd edition by Justin Zobel, price is $20.00.
|
Seminar |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignments |
|
1 |
9/27 |
Introduction
& Communication through good style |
Zobel,
chapters 1 & 2 |
|
|
2 |
10/4 |
Writing
up research & Style specifics |
Zobel chapter 9 & 3 |
Submit
Assignment #1 on Monday, October 1 to Prof. Douglas via email as pdf. |
|
3 |
10/11 |
Presentation
of Mathematics |
Zobel
chapter 5 |
Assignment
#2: Rewrite |
|
4 |
10/18 |
Presentation
of Algorithms |
Zobel chapter 7 |
|
|
5 |
10/25 |
Presentation
of Experiments |
Zobel chapter 11 |
|
|
6 |
11/1 |
Presentation
of Experiments |
Zobel chapter 11 |
Assignment
#3 due: Personal writing project, 2-8 pages. |
|
7 |
11/8 |
Graphs,
figures & tables |
Zobel chapter 6 |
|
|
8 |
11/15 |
Giving
Presentations |
Review
peerÕs Assignment #3. |
|
|
9 |
11/22 |
THANKSGIVING |
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|
|
10 |
11/27 |
Student presentations |
|
Student
presentations |
|
10 |
11/29 |
Refereeing & Ethics |
Zobel,
chapters 12 & 13 |
|
|
11 |
Finals |
There will be no class meeting
finals week |
|
Assignment
#4 due: Rewrite Assignment
#3. Due Dec 3. |
Course
Requirements: