Research Papers

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Research Papers

• Instructor Frode Eika Sandnes
• Room 1.774

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About me and your expectations

• I know very little about system administration
  (does anybody?)
• Knows a couple things about research papers
• Do not hold the answers - there may not be
  correct answers
• My role is to guide you in the right direction

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Course and learning objectives

• A preparation for the final-year dissertation.
• Get insight into the scientific research
  tradition and methods.
• Learn how to extract information from reliable
  scholarly literature.
• Learn how to find relevant literature through
  bibliographic databases and evaluation of these.
• Develop presentation skills.
• Develop academic writing skills.
• Gain familiarisation with classic sys admin texts.

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Course format

• You are responsible for your own learning
• Student presentations
• Discussions
• Written assessments (peer review)
• Lectures (very very few)
• Graded coursework
• Literature survey

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Presentations

• 2 papers x 25 min QA.
• Include additional material or refer to related
  studies when relevant
• Everybody is encouraged to ask questions (this is
  a skill to be acquired).
• We are all to anser the questions together in
  discussion (presenter not required to have all
  the answers).

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Assessment

• Required for passing
• Attendance (80 required)
• In class participation
• Graded work
• Litterature survey ( max 4000 words)
• Select topic freely from your two presented
  papers (other topics also possible must be
  unique)
• Assessed according to international journal
  review procedures.
• Bonus
• Maybe there will be a Research Surveys vol. 3?

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Lectures

• The following topics will be covered during the
  semester.
• This introduction
• What is research?
• Using bibliographical databases
• Assessing information
• Organising information
• Plagiarism, quoting, paraphrasing and summarising
• Formatting of research papers
• Presentation skills
• Quantitative research and statistics

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Now the fun part