Title: MSc level academic and professional (information) skills

Course consists of two main elements, academic and professional skills. Main items to be covered under each of these elements are:

Academic skills: Learning Styles, Nature of Scientific Enterprise; Critical thinking, Information skills, Plagiarism and Referencing, Critical Reading, Scientific writing, Research Design and Ethics. also attention is given to Data Management and Methods and Techniques.

Professional skills: Graphs and Visualization, Oral Presentation, Reflection, Collaboration and teamwork, Problem solving and Project management

Category: Research Skills — research skills in support of PhD and MSc research

Section 1
  Announcements
Part 1. Information skills, Plagiarism and Referencing
  Before you get started: Case Study
  Section 1.1: Developing a search strategy
  Section 1.2: Where to search
  Exercise1.2a: Sources of information
  Exercise1.2b: Number of results
  Exercise 1.2c: Google Scolar and Scopus
  Exercise 1.2d: Full text databases
  Exercise 1.2e: Search engines
  Exercise 1.2f: 'Filter Bubble'
  Section 1.3: Search terms and search strings
  Excersise 1.3a: Search techniques
  Section 1.4: Evaluation: Quality of information
  Exercise 1.4a: Are these articles useful? Modifying a search
  Exercise 1.4b: Quality of information
  Exercise 1.4c: Quality of scientific information
  Section 1.5: Documenting
  Exercise 1.5a: Plagiarism
  Exercise 1.5b: Plagiarism
  Exercise 1.5c: References
  Exercise 1.5d: Correct citation
Part 2. Critical reading/thinking and scientific writing
  Critical reading and thinking
  Structured scientific writing
Part 3. Presentation skills
  Oral presentations
  Graphs and Visualization
Part 4. Data management and ethics
  Data Management