| Week | Date | Topic |
Assignments (All assignments should be turned in through the EEE dropbox for that week.) |
Readings |
| 1 | 10/1 | Introductions |
Getting What you Came For (GWYCF) chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 |
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| 2 | 10/8 |
Visitor: Julia Gelfand, Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian, UCI Libraries Research Interests/Prior Work |
1) Make a professional web page, if you don't already have one, and link it in to the ICS graduate student page. It should include a link to a current CV. Please create a CV if you don't already have one. Bring a printed copy of your CV with you to class. 2) Write a draft of a research statement or, if you're applying for the NSF GRFP, the "Previous Research Experience" and "Proposed Plan of Research" statements. Bring a printed copy with you to class. |
1) GWYCF chapters 10 and 11 2) Why Grad Students Succeed or Fail |
| 3 | 10/15 |
Research Questions/Scholarly Writing |
1) Find CVs for three people whom you might aspire to resemble professionally, who are approximately 5-10 years ahead of you. Write a hypothetical CV for your future self 5 years from now, based on those CVs. Make sure to populate all major areas of the CV - not just publications, but also awards/fellowships, press, etc. Please include links to the CVs you used as examples. 2) Provide 150-200 word written critique of another student's research statement. |
1) GWYCF chapter 12 2) Excerpts from Writing Successful Science Proposals |
| 4 | 10/22 | Qualitative and Quantitative Research |
1) Write 5 hypothetical titles and abstracts (100-150 words each) for papers on research projects of your choosing, and list the conference or journal to which each paper would be submitted. Some or all of these may have been listed on your hypothetical CV. No more than one abstract may be submitted to the same journal. Each abstract should match the writing style of the selected journal; please include at least one abstract from the chosen journal and write a paragraph describing how you adjusted your writing to match the style of the journal. 2) Run each of the 5 abstracts through Grammarly, revise the abstracts if you wish, and write a paragraph about your experience with Grammarly and whether or not you found it useful. |
1) GWYCF chapter 13 2) How to read a book 3) How to read a paper |
| 5 | 10/29 |
Visitor: Valerie Sanchez, IRB-C Administrator, UCI Advising/Ethics |
Find at least 20 articles most relevant to one of the abstracts. At least 5 of the articles must have been found using only the UCI library web site and associated tools, and *not* google scholar or similar sites. Write a sentence for each one describing why it is relevant, and mention how you found it. All of the articles must be from scholarly journals or other academically rigorous sources (National Academies reports, IPCC, etc.); Wikipedia and mass media do not count for this assignment. Submit reference list created using Mendeley, Zotero or similar system. Note: You do not need to read all 20 articles in depth, but please skim each of them to ascertain their relevance. Also note that all 20 do not need to be relevant to the entire paper; some may be relate to the problem domain, others to the methodology used, etc. |
1) GWYCF chapter 14, 15 2) Tooling Up: Managing Your Advisor 3) The Care and Maintenance of Your Advisor |
| 6 | 11/5 |
Visitor: Judy Olson, Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences (12:30-1:15) Collaboration/Time Management |
Revise the abstract based on your findings from perusing the 20 articles due last week, and write a 750-1000 word related work section for it. Document should describe how your project is different from each of the most significant related works. Last paragraph should describe how your project is novel.
Alternate: If you are submitting for the NSF GRFP, you may turn in revised versions of your application materials instead. You are still responsible for including a related work section as part of the assignment due Nov 19. |
GWYCF chapters 16, 17, 18, and 19 |
| 7 | 11/12 | No Class. Veterans Day. | GWYCF chapter 20 | |
| 8 | 11/19 | Cross-Disciplinarity/Work-Life Balance |
Build on the title/abstract/related work, and expand the paper to include an introduction (which usually goes right after the abstract), a methods section, and a description of expected outcomes. Total length: 2000-3000 words. |
GWYCF chapters 21, 22, and 23 |
| 9 | 11/26 |
Research Contributions/Writing |
1) Using CHI reviewing form, write critiques of 3 classmate projects, each 100-200 words long. Please be rigorous and kind; the goal is to help person make better work, and want to work more. Also find three closely related papers for each of them that are not included in their reference list. 2) Continue work on Final paper. (Does not need to be turned in.) |
GWYCF chapter 24 |
| 10 | 12/3 | Career Planning |
1) Revise research statement, based on the directions your work has taken over the past eight weeks. 2) Continue work on Final paper. (Does not need to be turned in.) |
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| Finals week | 12/10 |
Final paper due Monday at 3:30pm
In 4,000 to 6,000 words, please include: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Related Work, Methods, Expected Outcomes, and References. |
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