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Scientific Communication 405 (233.405)
6 points / Semester 1
Handbook Description
The official Handbook entry Unit Aims
Students completing this unit will have practical
skills in both written and spoken communication in
the engineering sciences. They will explore social,
cultural, professional and ethical responsibilities and be
able to communicate these responsibilities to others.
Teaching Staff
| Coordinator/Lecturer |
Dr Lyndon While, Room 1.14 |
| Email |
lyndon@csse.uwa.edu.au |
Recommended Reading
A good dictionary (e.g., Concise Oxford) and a good thesaurus (e.g., Roget's)
Nicholas J. Higham, The Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, Siam 1993
Contact Hours
With regards to formal contact hours, you will be required to attend 26 hours of lectures.
To complete the requirements for cs405, you should expect to work a total of 10 hours/week on average,
including lectures, research, preparation and revision.
The list of topics shown below is provisional and may be varied,
both in content and in order.
| Type |
Time |
Day |
Location |
| Lecture |
9-11 |
Wed |
Room 1.24 |
| Week |
Tuesday |
| 1 |
LaTeX |
| 2 |
General writing skills |
| 3 |
Including symbolic terms |
| 4 |
Composition |
| |
NON-TEACHING PERIOD |
| 5 |
Citations and references |
| 6 |
Writing a paper |
| 7 |
LECTURE CANCELLED FOR PROSH |
| 8 |
Revising a draft and publishing a paper |
| 9 |
Designing and analysing experiments |
| 10 |
Giving a talk |
| 11 |
Designing and writing a webpage |
| 12 |
Writing a CV |
| 13 |
Writing a thesis |
| -- |
Recruitment workshop |
Assessment
Students must submit a substantial written portfolio comprising
- a generic essay,
- a literature review in their area of research,
- an experimental paper detailing research results,
- a critique of at least two research seminars, and
- a CV and WWW homepage.
There is no final examination.
The essay in the portfolio examines professional issues for computing graduates.
| Assessment |
% of final mark |
Assessment Dates |
| Portfolio |
100 |
3 June 2005 |
Unsatisfactory Progress
Any student who does not demonstrate satisfactory progress in this
unit, as defined in the FECM
Policy on Assessment Practices and Procedures, may be refused admission to the
final examinations. The final deadline for notification of unsatisfactory progress is the
last day of Week 10.
Penalties
The School of Computer Science and Software Engineering has adopted a policy on
minimum penalties for late items of assessment.
This is the default policy of all units unless indicated otherwise, in writing, by the
specific unit coordinator.
This policy shall apply to all items of continuous assessment, whether
submitted either physically or electronically. Immediately after the submission deadline for an item of continuous
assessment, a penalty of 20 percent will be applied PER DAY or PART THEREOF.
The minimum mark possible for late submission is zero. The
percentage is based on the item´s total contribution to the unit´s
assessment. For example, a project contributing 40% to the unit´s
assessment will incur a penalty of 8 marks for each day late until it is submitted or
a mark of zero results.
A more detailed description is given in this School´s Policy on
Late Submission. The Faculty does have an appeals procedure, the details of which can found at the Policy for Appeals.
All work submitted for assessment must be the individual
student's own work. Any instance of plagiarism will be
brought to the attention of the Department Disciplinary Board
and dealt with under the Department's and Faculty's plagiarism
policies.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is broadly defined to be when any portion
of the work presented for assessment, can be attributed
to another party. The student making the submission should acknowledge
what aspects of the presented work is not directly derived by
them. For the purposes of plagiarism it is irrelevant that you
have been given permission by someone to copy their work
and present it as your own.
You are directed to the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Policy on Plagiarism and the Faculty of Engineering,Computing and Mathematics Policy on Plagiarism.
Faculty Scaling
Final assessment is subject to the Faculty Scaling Policy.
This information is correct as at 20-Apr-2005, but is subject
to change from time to time. In particular, The University
reserves the right to change the content and/or method of
presentation and/or the method of assessment of any unit of
study, to withdraw any unit of study or programme, and/or to
vary arrangements for any programme.
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School of Computer Science, & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
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