課程資訊
課程名稱
論文研究及寫作
Dissertation Research and Writing 
開課學期
109-1 
授課對象
理學院  地理環境資源學研究所  
授課教師
張康聰 
課號
Geog8020 
課程識別碼
228ED0950 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
上課地點
地理502 
備註
本課程以英語授課。
總人數上限:15人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1091Geog8020 
課程簡介影片
 
核心能力關聯
核心能力與課程規劃關聯圖
課程大綱
為確保您我的權利,請尊重智慧財產權及不得非法影印
課程概述

Designed for doctoral and masters students, this seminar focuses on manuscript writing for an international journal. The seminar consists of three components.
The first component covers the basics of manuscript writing such as the structure and the format of a manuscript.
The second component examines the organization and writing of select articles from indexed journals that correspond to students’ research interest.
The third component discusses writing techniques such as how to write sentences and paragraphs and asks the student to prepare a draft manuscript or portions of a draft manuscript for submission to an international journal. 
 

課程目標
The goals of this seminar are for each student to (1) understand the process of putting together a manuscript for submission to an international journal and (2) write a draft of a manuscript or sections of a manuscript. 
課程要求
The course requirements include weekly reading or writing assignments. 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
1. P.K. Ramachandran Nair and Vimala D. Nair. 2014. Scientific Writing and Communication in Agriculture and Natural Resources. Springer eBooks. (ISBN9783319031019;ISBN9783319031002

2. Select articles from journals
 
參考書目
The Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing (MIT)
http://www.mit.edu/course/21/21.guide/toc.htm


 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
   
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
09/17  Introduction: Course website, course description, references, and course requirements 
第2週
09/24  Scientific writing,scientific paper, and ethics in scientific publishing  
第3週
10/08  1.Sample scientific papers
2.Scientific journals, journal ranking, impact factor, h-index based on Google Scholar 
第4週
10/15  The beginning of a scientific paper: Title, authors, keywords, abstract, and introduction 
第5週
10/22  The middle of a scientific paper: Materials and methods, and results 
第6週
10/29  The end of a scientific paper: Discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments, references, and supplementary materials 
第7週
11/05  The IMRAD format: Review of the organization of a scientific paper
Online writing tools: Grammarly, ProWritingAid, hemingwayapp.
Online Translator: Google translate, DeepL 
第8週
11/12  Scientific writing 1: Sections, sectioning, and paragraphs 
第9週
11/19  Sentences: Varying sentence openers, varying sentence lengths, varying sentence structure 
第10週
11/26  Sentences: Common mistakes in sentences 
第11週
12/03  Words: Choice of the right words, tenses, active and passive voices, choice of strong nouns and verbs 
第12週
12/10  Writing exercise 1: critique, edit, review 
第13週
12/17  Writing exercise 2: critique, edit, review 
第14週
12/24  Writing exercise 3: critique, edit, review 
第15週
12/31  Writing exercise 4: critique, edit, review 
第16週
01/07  Writing exercise 5: critique, edit, review