CSE569 Scholarship Skills

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    Course Overview: The purpose of this course is to make you better scholars. In particular it attempts to make you better researchers, better writers, better presenters, and better reviewers. It concentrates on your reading, writing and composition skills. The course concentrates on both the production and consumption of the “media” used by computer scientists to communicate today. 

    You will learn to both read and write papers, such as conference and journal articles; You will learn to both listen to and prepare and deliver oral presentations.  You will also learn skills that will prepare you for your career as a scholar: How to choose a thesis topic, and how to write a thesis; How to be an effective reviewer of material written by others; How to prepare yourself for the job hunt in academia or industry when you graduate. When you’re through with this course you should have a feel for the tasks and activities of modern scholars.
     


    		Class meets: Winter Quarter 2005. 
              Tuesday / Thursday 1:00-2:20 pm in Bronson Creek Building, Room 130
             (The Bronson Creek Building is number 16 on the OGI campus map .) 
     

    Instructors:   Dave Maier, maier@cs.pdx.edu, Tues/Thurs at OGI, BCB 210D, 503-748-1154,
                                                                        Mon/Wed/Fri at PSU 503-724-2406
                                                                        (after Jan 17, PSU office is 310-05 Fourth Avenue Building (FAB))
                                                                        FAX 503-725-3211

                         Todd Leen, tleen@cse.ogi.edu, BCB 150E, 503-748-1160, FAX 503-748-1548

    Topical Link -- RPE exam information.

    Required Texts:
      Mark Zobel.  Writing for Computer Science.  Springer 1997.  ISBN 9-813-08322-0.
      Lyn Dupre. Bugs in Writing.  Addison Wesley, ISGM 0-201-60019-6. 
      (Some online notes are at http://www.ai.sri.com/~wilkins/dupre.html. )

    Ancillary Texts: 
      Mary-Clair van Leunen, A Handbook for Scholars, 2nd Ed,  Oxford University Press, 
      1992.  Some online notes are at http://www.cse.ruu.nl/docs/tandt/html/Scholars/.

      William Zinsser.  On Writing Well.  Harpercollins, 1994,

      Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Robers, Mathematical Writing.
      MAA Notes Number 14, The Mathematical Association of America, 1989.

      William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.  The Elements of Style, Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 
      (You can find this text on line.)

      Nichoals Higham, Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM, 1993.

      Robert I. Berkman. Find It Fast. Harper Perennial, 1997. 

      Elizabeth Castro. HTML for the World Wide Web, 4th Ed.: Visual Quickstart Guide,
       Peachpit Press, 2000.

      Gary Blake and Robert W. Bly, The Elements of Technical Writing, Macmillan, 1993.

      Henry Watson Fowler.  The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, R.W. Burchfield (Editor), Oxford, 2000.