Jaroslav Křivánek

Seminar on Scientific Soft Skills (NPGR010) - summer semester 2015/2016

Taught by Jaroslav Křivánek | Tue 9:00-10:30 in SW1 (Malá Strana) | SIS

Purpose

This seminar is for students who want to improve their scientific soft-skills in the English language. The attendees will:

• Learn to work with research papers effectively
• Learn to write research papers/reports/presentations
• Practice the full working cycle in English (read-write-talk)
• Learn about recent research in computer graphics
• Practice English listening, speaking, and grammar

Organization

• The seminar is held exclusively in English, i.e. all the papers, discussions, talks and reports are in English.
• Regular participation in the seminar is required. Students are allowed to miss the seminar without a proper excuse at most twice.
• Lectures on various aspects of the "soft" scientific work (reading, writing, presenting) will be given by the lecturer.
• Classes start by a 15-20 minute exercise from Hewings: Advanced grammar in use.
• In the 3rd week, students give a 5 minute work-up presentation where they introduce themselves and talk about their current research work, hobbies, interests etc. Anything goes.
• Each student chooses one research paper to work with. During the semester, the student will
  • prepare a conference-style presentation of the paper with slides (15 + 5 minutes sharp)
  • write a critical review of the paper (review form)
  • lead a critical discussion of the paper in the class
  • write a two-page summary of the paper in a format suitable for a conference submission (formatting instructions | LaTeX template)

Link to English test results

Paper Assignement

Class Schedule