Course Description: This course is devoted to those fundamental skills that every graduate student and researcher must master: reading, writing, and research.
Topics covered include:
We will study the parts of a research paper: the abstract, introduction, background, methods, results, conclusions, and bibliography and will dissect the research processes; examining the features of successful and unsuccessful research and presentation of research.
Coursework will include: reading and reviewing papers, writing parts of research papers and theses or dissertations, and presenting papers.
Prerequisites: Graduate Status or permission
Course schedule which will be updated as the semester proceeds.