Course details
General
Faculty | Health Sciences | ||
Department | Medicine | ||
Education level | Postgraduate / Master of Science | ||
Course code | C4 | Semester | 1 |
Course title | How to write a paper or a grant proposal | ||
Independent teaching activities | Hours per week | ECTS | |
Lectures | 1 | ||
Practice | 3 | ||
Total | 4 | 4 | |
Coursetype | General setting course, skills development | ||
Prerequisite courses | None | ||
Teaching and assessment language | English |
Learning outcomes
Objective
Upon completion of the course, the student will know the basic principles of writing and presenting a scientific study (oral presentation, poster presentation, full publication), and the writing of a research proposal and will be able to submit them via the internet.
Knowledge
Upon completion of the course, graduate students will be familiar with:
- The structure of a complete publication, oral communication, poster presentation or research proposal
- The basic steps from initiation through completion of writing a scientific study or research proposal
- The judgment process of a scientific study (peer review)
- The ethics posts
Skills
The course participants upon completion will be able to:
- Organize and write the “Introduction” and “Discussion” of a full publication
- Organize and write the section of “Materials and Methods” of a full publication
- Organize and write the “Results” of a full publication
- Build Tables and Charts
- Write author citations of a publication using Reference managers
- Submit a complete publication, via the Internet
- Write titles and summary (abstract)
- Prepare and present an oral presentation (slide structure)
- Prepare and present a poster (construction poster)
- Organize and write a graduation thesis
- Prepare and write a research proposal (grant)
Course contents
- Introduction
- Writing Introduction and Discussion
- Writing Materials and Methods
- Writing Results
- Tables and Charts
- Writing Citation- Reference managers
- Submitting-Process peer review
- Writing titles and summary (abstract)
- Oral Communication-Transparency Construction
- Poster-poster Construction
- Writing thesis-PhD thesis
- Writing research proposal(grant)
Teaching and learning methods – evaluation
Teaching methods | Face to face Distance learning |
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Use of information and communication technologies (ICT) |
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Module structure | Work Hours per Semester | Activity |
Lectures | 30 | |
Exercises (Quiz) | 5 | |
Exercises (Wikis) | 5 | |
Exercises (Online discussion fora) | 10 | |
Exercises (Study relevant papers) | 20 | |
Essay background work | 40 | |
Essay writing | 15 | |
Overall work for the course | 125 | |
Assessment Methods |
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