저널 논문 작성 및 실습 Scientific writing & practice Ch. 1. Introduction

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저널 논문 작성 및 실습 Scientific writing & practice

Ch. 1. Introduction

Major: Interdisciplinary program of integrated biotechnology

Graduate school of bio- & information technology Young-il Lim (N110), Lab. FACS

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Course # Course name Time Room #

Scientific writing and practice Wed. 9-12시 N130/N116

Overview

How to write a paper? How to submit a paper to a periodic scientific journal? How to choose an appro- priate journal to be submitted? What is the SCI and SCIE? By what procedure is a paper published in the journal? Am I a first author of the paper?

The graduation students who are willing to write a paper have lots of curiosities on publication. In this lecture, the students take a chance to write an own paper with the assistance of teacher. They learn how to use EndNote X3 for citation, how to write the cover letter and the abstract, and how to compose the introduction. They will have self-confidence to write a paper in English, after this lecture. This lecture is given in English.

Objectives

1. To be able to use EndNote for citation and referencing saved from the on-line web-sites.

2. To learn how to write a paper including the introduction, methodology and theories, results, discussion, conclusion, and abstract.

3. To practice writing a manuscript to be submitted to a scientific journal.

Method Lecture(●), Seminar (●), Computational practice (●), Factory tour (●), Beam projector(●) Homework Write a manuscript of your subject with the expression learned in this lecture.

Evaluation Attendance: 8%, homework: 92%

Text Main : Hilary Glasman-Deal, Science research writing for non-native speakers of English, Imperial college Press, 2009.

Program: EndNote X3

Outline

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Week Contents Remarks 1 Introduction, SCI, SCIE, and Impact factor (visiting http://

www.isiknowledge.com/) Hoffmann & Sgro (2011), Nature.

2 On-line Library in HKNU for scientific searching IF.xls, sci.xls, scie.xls, EndNote X3

3 EndNote program learning I (UQ manual 1-7) EndNote X3

4 EndNote program learning II with MS word & ScienceDirect (manual

14) EndNote X3

5 Paper submission by internet (Elsevier) and cover letter

6 Author instruction (guide) in a journal The procedure of paper publication Ethics and copyright in publication

7 Ch1. How to write introduction? Homework 1: write a own introduction with references, using EndNote X3 and MS word.

8 Ch2. Writing about methodology Homework 2: write a own methodology

9 Self writing and corrections with teacher 1

10 Ch3. Writing about results Homework 3: write own results

11 Ch4. Writing the discussion/conclusion 12 Self writing and corrections with teacher 2

13 Ch5. Writing the abstract Homework 4: complete own whole draft

15 Final exam. (evaluation of draft written by students) final draft

Weekly Lecture Plan

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Course # Course name Time Room #

Scientific writing and practice Wed. 9-12시 N130/N116

Overview

How to write a paper? How to submit a paper to a periodic scientific journal? How to choose an appro- priate journal to be submitted? What is the SCI and SCIE? By what procedure is a paper published in the journal? Am I a first author of the paper?

The graduation students who are willing to write a paper have lots of curiosities on publication. In this lecture, the students take a chance to write an own paper with the assistance of teacher. They learn how to use EndNote X3 for citation, how to write the cover letter and the abstract, and how to compose the introduction. They will have self-confidence to write a paper in English, after this lecture. This lecture is given in English.

Objectives

1.

2.

3.

Method Lecture(●), Seminar (●), Computational practice (●), Factory tour (●), Beam projector(●) Homework Write a manuscript of your subject with the expression learned in this lecture.

Evaluation Attendance: 8%, homework: 92%

Text Main :

Program: EndNote X3

Outline

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Week Contents Remarks 1

2 3 4 5 6

7 Ch1.

8 Ch2.

10 Ch3.

11 Ch4.

13 Ch5.

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Weekly Lecture Plan

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Overview of this lecture

- Scientific search using ScienceDirect - Scientific citing with EndNote X3

- How to write the abstract, introduction, conclusion and cover letter?

- Ethics and copyright in publication

- Text book study: Science research writing for non-native speakers of English - Writing and corrections of own paper with me

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Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

1.1 Structure

1.2 Grammar and writing skills

- tense: past simple, present simple, present perfect, present continuous - Signaling language

- Passive or active

1.3 Writing task: Build a model - Building a model

- Key

- the model

- testing the model

1.4 Vocabulary for introduction 1.5 Writing an Introduction

- write an introduction - Key

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Human brain

Human Connectome Project, http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/, NIH, USA.

# of neurons = 100 billions

# of synapses = 100,000 billions

Human connectome:

# of synapses plays a key role in brain performance

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Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

1.1 Structure

Keywords

Research highlights Graphical abstract

Appendix

Acknowledgements References

Symmetrical structure

Interface

between two sections

Connectivity:

A living paper is created by connectivity between sen- tences, paragraphs, parts, Tables, Figures, and Equa- tions.

Document forever:

Your article is an organism being able to live longer than you.

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Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

- Passive or active - Paragraphing

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Connectivity between sentences, paragraphs, parts, Tables, Figures, and Equations.

Connectivity between sentences:

1) overlap ( duplication which has to be avoided) 2) pronoun or pro-form

3) semicolon or relative clause 4) sentence connectors

- cause: as, because, since (due to, because of, owing to …) - result: therefore, hence, thus, consequently (as a result, so …) - contrast/difference: however, whereas/while, but, by contrast - unexpectedness: although, even though, though

- addition: in addition, moreover, furthermore …

Please find words for sentence connection in the given text!!!

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Please find sentences for voice in the given text!!!

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Please make a flow chart from paragraphs in the given text!!!

Common errors in paragraphing

- clustering short or single sentences - too long paragraph

- one sentence in a paragraph

Recent English tends to write sentences clearly with short sentences.

Skills for paragraphing

- to make a flow chart (structuring paragraphs or constructing consequences) - to plan how to write down each idea or concept

- to check if they are in a logical and coherent order - to list a key idea or concept, using bullet points

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- Passive or active

Tense: present perfect, present Connectivity: which, …

Voice: active and passive Sentences: 4

Subjects: ‘get in’ PLA, general issues

Tense: present perfect, present, past Connectivity: however, …

Voice: active and passive Sentences: 3

Subjects: literature surveys, problems

Tense: present

Connectivity: this combination, Voice: active

Sentences: 3

Subjects: objectives, contents, overviews

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- Key

- the model

Short description

(modeling of introduction)

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- Key

- the model

Introduce your topic

- Present tense

- What kind of facts should I start with?

- Background facts?

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- Key

- the model

- it is not the literature review.

- Present tense - what order?

- escape from the general background

- prepare to talk about your specific topic

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- Key

- the model

- literature review - connecting sentence

between general and specific topics

- give a brief summary of the references

- ordering skill:

1) chronological order 2) subject by subject 3) deepening the subject Please use all the three skills

for the literature review!!!

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- Key

- the model

- terminate the literature review

- prepare to talk about objectives of your research - connecting sentence be-

tween literature survey and present study

- Present Simple tense - purpose of your re-

search

- This paper presents …, This study focuses on …, The aim of this study is … - This article aims to …, This paper is organized as follows …

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- Key

- the model

- Past Simple tense

- originality or creativity of this study

- Present Simple tense - overview of this study

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- Key

- the model

Literature survey General backgrounds

Reasons or necessity

Aims of this study

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- Key

- the model

Homework 1-1

Find a paper related to your research subject and print out it. Read the introduc- tion of this paper and mark the model component (1, 2, 3, or 4). Make a flow chart of this introduction with a key concept. Please state this introduction in terms of weak points, strong points, suggestions for improvement and grammati- cal errors.

Please distribute us your homework and present in the class your homework, us- ing the paper material (without beam project).

Each student has 10 minutes for presentation.

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A volume

^{per year}

An issue

^{per month}

An issue

^{per month}

An issue

^{per month}

_{An Article}

letters

words

phrases

sentences paragraphs

sections

An Article

letters

words

phrases

sections

An Article

Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

1.4 Vocabulary for introduction

letters

words

phrases

sections

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Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

1.4 Vocabulary for introduction

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1.4 Vocabulary for introduction - establishing significance

- previous and/or current research and contributions - gap/problem/question/prediction

- the present work

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Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

1.5 Writing an Introduction - write an introduction

Homework 1-2

Write an Introduction on your research topic (for potential publication). Respect the model presented in this lecture and use the vocabularies and expressions learned so far. For citing, use EndNote.

저널 논문 작성 및 실습 Scientific writing & practice Ch. 1. Introduction

Outline

Weekly Lecture Plan

Outline

Weekly Lecture Plan

Overview of this lecture

Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

Human brain

Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

Connectivity between sentences:

1) overlap ( duplication which has to be avoided) 2) pronoun or pro-form

3) semicolon or relative clause 4) sentence connectors

- cause: as, because, since (due to, because of, owing to …) - result: therefore, hence, thus, consequently (as a result, so …) - contrast/difference: however, whereas/while, but, by contrast - unexpectedness: although, even though, though

- addition: in addition, moreover, furthermore …

Recent English tends to write sentences clearly with short sentences.

Homework 1-1

Please distribute us your homework and present in the class your homework, us- ing the paper material (without beam project).

Each student has 10 minutes for presentation.

A volume

An issue

An issue

An issue

_{An Article}

An Article

An Article

Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

Unit 1. How to write an Introduction

Homework 1-2

Write an Introduction on your research topic (for potential publication). Respect the model presented in this lecture and use the vocabularies and expressions learned so far. For citing, use EndNote.

Please submit to the teacher by email or by hard-copy.

Each student individually has 10 minutes for correction with the teacher.

Poor writing

- duplication of the same expression

- non-logical expression and order

- Grammatical errors