Module Code:  CA640:

 

Title: Research Skills and Professional Practice

General Information

The approved university module specification.

Introduction to Library Research Facilities: Thurs 1st October 11.00-12.00:  Michaela Hollywood  will give a broad introduction to Library resources and will  introduce students to specific subject-relevant resources, for example Inspec, IEEE and ACM. This lecture will take place in the library.

Research Skills : Jane Horgan (School of Computing)

Professional Practice (Ethics and Law):  Renaat Verbruggen (School of Computing)

Module Assessment:

 Continuous Assessment:                      50%                     

         (a) Research Skills: 33.3%

         (b) Ethics and Law: 16.6%

Final Exam:                                           50%

Details of the Research Skills assessment for this module are here.

Timetable for Research Skills presentations is available here.

Results 2009-2010 here.

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

Copies of the Research Skills lectures notes format.  Overview

Section

Slides

1: Introduction to Research

Part 1

2; Research Quality and Creativity

Part 2

3: Paper and Report Writing

Part 3

4: Speaking and Presentations

Part  4

5:  Some Research Tools

Addendum

 

 

Professor Jane Horgan, School of  Computing, Dublin City University,
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 700 5260 Fax: +353 (0)1 7005442
email: jane.horgan @ computing.dcu.ie
 
September 2009