Doctoral Seminar II - 2014-II
Doctorado en Ing. Sistemas y Computación
Depto. Ing. de Sistemas e Industrial
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
Teachers
Coordinadores:
Jenny Marcela Sanchez, PhD
Description
Goals
Students of Computer Science Doctoral Program will be able to:
Refine analytical and critical skills/ abilities by reviewing, synthesizing and critiquing its own projects
Communicate clearly and coherently its partial results
Write its dissertation
Learning Strategy
There will be devoted to mini-lectures on key topics, discussions of the course readings, and in-class exercises dealing with components of the proposal.
Several presentations showing the components of the dissertation.
Course Schedule
Grading and Assignments
Contact:
Jenny Marcela Sánchez-Torres: jmsanchezt@unal.edu.co
Office hours for students: Monday 11 am to 1 pm Ed 453 of 100 and Tuesday from 11 am to 1 pm Ed 453 of 100
References
BOOTH, G.G. COLOMB. The Craft of Research. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995.
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CRESWELL, John W. 2008. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
DAY, Robert. Cómo escribir y publicar trabajos científicos. Tercera edición. Oryx Press. 2005.
EASTERBROOK, S. (2004). How theses get written: Some cool tips. [PDF Document] Retrieved from http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/presentation/thesiswriting.pdf]
FRIEDLAND, Writing successful science proposals. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000
PARADIS J.G. and ZIMMERMAN, The MIT guide to science and engineering communication, 2ed, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002.
REMENYI, Dan y MONEY Artur. Research Supervision for supervisors and their students. 2007
SILVIA, P.J. (2007). How to write a lot. Washington D.C. American Psychological Association.