Seminar Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

Goal:

The goal of this seminar is to write and present a state of the art report and to write a review on another report. A member of the teaching staff will guide and help students in acquiring the scientific material and writing the report. The students are also expected to present their work in a 15 minutes talk.

Tasks for the students:

Teaching staff will evaluate and grade students based on the following output:

• A list of literature that a student intends to review. This document will be regarded as an official seminar registration of the student.
• Attendance of the lectures "Forschung und wie sie funktioniert" by Professor Eduard Gröller, the lecture "Wie halte ich einen Vortrag" by Professor Werner Purgathofer, and the lecture "Wie schreibt man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit" by Professor Michael Wimmer. You can ask for a waiver in case you have already attended one of these talks.
• A written state of the art report in the form of a scientific paper. We strongly encourage that the reports are composed in LaTeX. The report must have a minimum of 8 written pages (15-16 pages, if students are working in groups of two). The preferred language is English.
• A written review of one of the papers of another student.
• A 15 minutes presentation in English followed by a 10 minutes discussion. The slides are to be submitted to the TUWEL Course prior to the talk.
• Active discussion participation is expected after the presentation of other students.

Important Dates:

• 06.03.2013: Initial meeting at 13:00 - 14:00 in the seminar room of the institute 186 (Favoritenstr. 9-11 / 5.floor). In this meeting the topics will be presented and assigned to individual students or groups of students. Having your topic chosen, register in the TUWEL Course and subscribe to your topic group.
• 02.04.2013: Submit list of literature in the TUWEL Course. This will be regarded as the official acceptance of the topic and the official seminar registration.
• Attend the following lectures (they all take place in the seminar room of the institute 186 (Favoritenstr. 9-11 / 5.floor):
  • 09.04.2013, 10:00 - 12:00 (updated): "Wie schreibt man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit", by Professor Wimmer
  • 24.04.2013, 17:00 - 18:30: "Forschung und wie sie funktioniert", by Professor Gröller
  • 26.04.2013, 14:00 - 15:30: "Wie halte ich einen Vortrag", by Professor Purgathofer
• 29.04.2013: Submit a report draft to the TUWEL Course. This report version will be used as a basis for the review process.
• 30.04.2013: Download a review form and a report from another student at TUWEL Course.
• 06.05.2013: Submit the completed review to the TUWEL Course
• 13.05.2013: Download two reviews (one from your supervisor and one from another student) from the TUWEL Course. Use the information provided in the reviews to update your report accordingly.
• 16.06.2013: Submit the slides for your presentation to the TUWEL Course. The slides should be in Power-Point or Open-Office format. The slides will be copied on the presentation machine in the seminar-room. No own devices will be allowed.
• 17.06.2013: Talks will be held from 10:00 - 12:00 (updated) in the seminar room of the institute 186 (Favoritenstr. 9-11 / 5.floor). Presence of the students is mandatory.
• 24.06.2013: Submit your final report to the TUWEL Course.

Grading Criteria

• The quality of the written report is worth 40% of the grade
• The quality of the talk is worth 30% of the grade
• The quality of the review is worth 20% of the grade
• Active discussion participation is worth 5% of the grade
• Attendance during the lectures is worth 5% of the grade

Plagiarism:

All the literature that is reviewed during the seminar has to be placed in the reference section of the report. You can have further information about referencing and examples of what is plagiarism here. We are all expected to abide by professional scientific ethics and make sure that the work is not plagiarized in any sense.