Communication and Writing Skills

Enseignants

Kolp Manuel; Swaen Valérie;

Langue
d'enseignement

Anglais

Thèmes abordés

This courses provides transversal competences to doctoral students ' i.e. competences that are useful to all researchers regardless of their specific topic and discipline. During this seminar, students will learn how to write a literature review, an academic paper; how to get published and how to present a research paper.

Acquis
d'apprentissage

A la fin de cette unité d’enseignement, l’étudiant est capable de :
1	Contribution de l'unité d'enseignementau référentiel AA du programme - Knowledge and reasoning - Scientific and systematic approach - Personal and professional development. At the end of this seminar, the student will be able to: prepare a research plan and an academic paper; write a paperfollowing the academic standards; review an academic paper; deal with the reviewing process; pitch his/her research; present a research seminar.

Contenu

What makes a good research idea?
Designing your literature review (Searching for literature; Quality of journals; Writing the literature review)
Developing your research design (Conceptual model, hypotheses, methodology)
Writing your paper: what and how? (Structure of an academic paper; Writing an abstract; Writing the basic sections: data collection, findings, discussion, conclusion, limitations and future research; Positioning a research and defining contributions; Common mistakes of novice writers)
Publishing process (Soliciting for feedback; Developing research papers; Selecting an appropriate journal; Order of authors; Making the paper ready for submission)
Reviewing your paper
Presenting your research in a research seminar
Pitch your research to a non-expert audience

Méthodes d'enseignement

En raison de la crise du COVID-19, les informations de cette rubrique sont particulièrement susceptibles d’être modifiées.

The course is organized around thematic sessions.
Students are expected to prepare the writing/reading assignment and think about the topics before each session. They are also expected to contribute in an informed, critical and innovative manner during the sessions.
Different exercises could be proposed to students such as:

• published paper analysis;
• formulating research title, aim, objectives, research questions;
• writing a working paper;
• reviewing papers written by other students;
• presenting a working paper (poster and/or PowerPoint) .

Modes d'évaluation
des acquis des étudiants

En raison de la crise du COVID-19, les informations de cette rubrique sont particulièrement susceptibles d’être modifiées.

The assessment of your performance will be composed of the following elements:

• Quality of the written working paper (50%)
• Quality of the oral presentation of your working paper (20%)
• Quality of your review and discussion of classmate paper (15%)
• Quality of your online presence (15%)

Ressources
en ligne

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Bibliographie

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Faculté ou entité
en charge

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