Scientific Writing II

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Scientific Writing II

• Class Business

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Whats Inside

• Class Business
• Rules Regulations
• Requirements

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Objectives

• Course objectives
• To improve your ability to efficiently access the
  biological literature (particularly in your
  specific areas of interest)
• To improve your communication skills
  (particularly writing skills)

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Class Business

• Grading
• 1) Proposal . . . . . . . . . . 100 pts (1st
  version - 40 pts 2nd - 60 pts) 2) Research
  paper . . . . . 125 pts (1st version - 50 pts
  2nd - 75 pts) 3) Oral presentation. . . 50
  pts 4) Poster Presentation. .  50 pts 5)
  Manuscript review . . . 25 pts 6) Editing
  exercises . . . .  75 pts 7) Exams . . . . . .
  . . . . .  150 pts
• Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   575 pts
• Final grades will be assigned based on total
  points earned  
• 517 575 A
• 460 516 B
• 402 459 C
• 345 401 D
• lt 344 F

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Rules and Regulations

• All rules applied in the faculty of letters,
  English Department, Bina Nusantara University
• lt 75 of the attendance will be denied his/her
  eligibility to pass this course
• No late papers/assignment

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Requirements

• Course requirements
• Research proposal. This proposal should be based
  on a data set (unpublished) obtained from me.
• Based on the data set, write a research paper,
  give an oral presentation, present a poster.
• Provide a detailed review of one submitted
  manuscript.
• Edit 5 short papers or sections of papers. 
• Three 50-point exams based on lecture material,
  handouts, Day's text

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No Excuses!