242-702 Seminar II: Prelims/0 1 Seminar II Objective – –to give some background on the course...

242-702 Seminar II: Prelims/0 1

Seminar II

• Objective– to give some background on the course

242-702, Semester 2, 2014-2015

Who I am:Andrew DavisonWiG [email protected]

0. Preliminaries Please askquestions


Overview

1. Outline of the Course

2. Meeting Times / Locations

3. Workload

4. Passing this Subject

5. Course Materials


1. Outline of the Course

• How to write a project proposal and a slide presentation in English.– including my comments on your work

• Give you a chance to improve your summary/survey report from 242-701.– this will become the literature review section in

your proposal


Prerequisites

• I assume you have completed:– 242-500 Research and Development Methodologies (RDM)

– 242-701 Seminar I• I've been told that you prepared presentations and summary reports in this subject. Did you?


Communication

Skills

I'm not going to ask anyone to give presentations or long speeches in English.

But...– when I ask a question (which usually only

requires a yes or no answer) then ...– everyone answer, please, please, ...

Yes Ajarn


2. Meeting Time / Location

• ?? ??–??:50 ??– this can change, if most (all) of you agree

• You're welcome to come to see me with questions about writing your proposal at other times.


3. Workload

• 1. Give me a copy of your best presentation slides from 242-701– due: week 4– written in English– see online presentation skeleton

– I will comment on them later this semester– the slides usually require 2-3 revisions!


• 2. Give me a copy of your best 242-701 summary (survey) report.– due: week 6– written in English– if you haven't written one, then write one!

– usually requires 2-3 revisions!


• 3. OPTIONAL: Give me a copy of your project proposal presentation slides– due: week 14 (3 weeks before end)– comments returned: week 15


• This is a Pass/Fail course.

• You will fail if you do not do hand in the workload items on time.

• Any comments I give you can be changed/ignored if your supervisor agrees.

4. Passing (or Failing) this Subject


Non-Attendence

• I may take registration at the start of a class.

• If anyone fails to attend multiple times, then I will fail them– unless they have a good excuse

• If you cannot come to class for some reason, try to tell me before.


5. Course Materials

• All the handouts (and other materials) will be placed on-line at

http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/ Software.coe/Seminar_II/

Print out all the slides (6/page) and the eng_proposal_thesis PDF, and BRING TO CLASS

Print out all the slides (6/page) and the eng_proposal_thesis PDF, and BRING TO CLASS


Textbooks

• Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guideby J.D. Lester and J.D. Lester, Jr.Pearson, 2007; 12th ed.

• The Research Paper: Process, Form, and Contentby A.J. RothWadsworth, 1995; 2nd ed.

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