Academic Writing (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Content scheduling

The course is designed primarily for staff members participating in Doctorate Accelerator. However, the course is also open for emplo-yees of Turku University of Applied Sciences and Satakunta Univer-sity of Applied Sciences. The course is also included in the course selection of the Open UAS.The course is aimed at those who are writing a scientific manusc-ript. During the course, the participants will write an article, prefe-rably in English. The training is arranged in accordance with the agreement with Polytechnic University of Valencia and can be recognized as part of doctoral studies.The participants will bring their own laptops for seminars. The learning platform is Optima.
Meeting point: Lemminkäisenkatu
24.2. at 12.30-15.30 Kick-off Seminar I (Sini Eloranta, Kaisa Sorsa and Liisa Tiittanen)
* How to start academic writing; where and how to publish an article
* Preliminary assignment and going through it
* Deliberate beforehand the contents, viewpoint and language (English/Finnish) of the manuscript you work on
* Determine a schedule and objectives for working on the manuscript
* Find a journal for submitting your manuscript – copy the author’s instruction by the journal and bring them with you for the first session
2.3. at 12.30–15.30 Quality and Visibility of Publications (Liisa Tiittanen)
Quality of scientific publications, publications as a part of the government funding allocation
* Quality assessment of publications
* Open access publishing
* Collecting publications information statistics
* Affiliations
Research and researcher visibility and impact
* Open repository and self-archiving
* Sharing networks for researchers
* Researcher identifiers (e.g. ORCID)
9.3 at 12.30–15.30 Information Seeking and Reference Management (Liisa Tiittanen)
Information searching – tools and resources
- TUAS Finna
- information resources and how to access them
16.3. at 12.30–15.30 Information Seeking and Reference Management (Liisa Tiittanen)
Systematic information searching
- information search as a process
- defining topics , conceptualizing
- search terms, subject terms
- search strategies, combingin search terms, Boolean operators
23.3. at 12.30–15.30 Article Seminar II (Sini Eloranta and Kaisa Sorsa)
* Research and publication ethical issues
* The structure of a good scientific article
* Working on the manuscript
6.4. at 12.30–15.30 Support for Writing in English (Poppy Skarli)
•Discussion and questions on the basis of examples and the texts by the participants.
20.4. at 12.30–15.30 Article Seminar III (Sini Eloranta and Kaisa Sorsa)
* The first draft of the article manuscript ready, presentations, peer evaluations
4.5. at 12.30–15.30 Article Seminar IV (Sini Eloranta and Kaisa Sorsa)
* Articles finished, presentations

Objective

Osallistuja saa perustiedot tieteellisen artikkelin kirjoittamisesta sekä siihen liittyvistä asioista. Opintojakso on tarkoitettu ensisijaisesti Tohtorikiihdyttämöön kuuluville henkilöille, mutta mukaan voi tulla myös ylempää ammattikorkeakoulututkintoa suorittavia.

Content

- Tutkimus- ja julkaisueettiset kysymykset
- Hyvän tieteellisen artikkelin rakenne
- Tieteellisen artikkelin työstämistä
- Julkaisufoorumit
- Tiedonhankinta ja viitteidenhallinta
- Julkaisujen laatu ja näkyvyys
- Englanniksi kirjoittaminen

Teaching methods

Opiskelija kirjoittaa artikkelin suomeksi tai englanniksi ja esittelee sen seminaarissa.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

Oppimista aktivoivat menetelmät, joustavuus, kansainvälisyys.

Student workload

5 etcs = 133h

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Hylätty: opiskelija ei ole kirjoittanut artikkelia suomeksi tai englanniksi eikä ole esittänyt sitä seminaarissa.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Artikkeli ja seminaariseitys.