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CIS 640
Writing in Computer Research

Fall 2010 — Computer and Information Science

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Schedule

Time and Place

Fridays, Noon - 1:20 AM, 200 Deschutes
CRN: 12013, 2 Credits
Web Pages: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/classes/10F/cis640/

Instructor

Prof. Anthony Hornof, 356 Deschutes
Office Hours: Tues and Thurs 2:30-3:30 PM, or by appointment
hornof@cs.uoregon.edu

Overview

The point of this course is to help CIS graduate students with one of the most important and yet one of the most painful aspects of academic life—writing. Most honest researchers will secretly confide in their closest friends how much they dread writing. But it does not need to be so painful. Writing is a powerful way to communicate your plans, ideas, results, and theories through writing, and to successfully and constructively critique the ideas of other researchers through writing. Through writing, you can win great fame, and millions and millions of dollars in fortune.

The course is intended to work with students wherever they are in their development as a scientific writer, and regardless of whether English is their first or second language. The course is intended to help address the intimidation of writing papers by showing students how to dissect existing published research papers to understand the overall structure, so that students can then apply the same structure, and established writing techniques, to writing their own papers. The course is intended to be fun, not stressful.