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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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The lectures are going to be half frontal, consisting from discussions and practical advices. Each student will get basic tips and tricks which he/she will have chance to try herself/himself. During the lectures, students will have opportunity to practice scientific presentations (5 min, 15 min) preparation and presentation, poster preparations. Further, we will prepare experiment proposal for lab meeting, and several lectures will be devoted to grant proposal writing. Finally, different steps of manuscript submission will be discussed and practiced: letter to editor, cover letter, work with reference managers, supplementary materiál preparations and ethics of data sharing will be discussed. Finally, the students will write a popular one page article about a paper and give a presentation about a paper. One lecture will be fully focused on forms of presentation and non-verbal comunication during the presentations.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Work with text (with textbook, with book), Activating (simulations, games, drama), Group work
- Class attendance
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for classes
- 25 hours per semester
- Semestral paper
- 5 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to teach students different ways of communication of science and in science and the popularization of science and the results of scientific work. At the end of the course, the student will know how to write a resume and cover letter correctly, how to make a graphic abstract, an attractive title of the article and a presentation. They will learn to communicate at the conference and with journalists.
The course is suitable for all levels of study, but it is focused mainly on students who are already preparing for the first conference, have assigned a research topic and possibly have the first results that they try to process into a popular form. If the student does not have his / her own results or topic, he / she must reckon with the fact that he / she will have to work out a homework assignment on an article which he / she will read, etc. Eligible student can work independently with power-point and photoshop. He is interested in open and active communication during lessons.
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Prerequisites
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The prerequisite for the student is an interest in popularizing science and an interest in improving their communication skills. Another prerequisite is that he can work with power-point, graphic programs, is willing to learn with new applications and is familiar with social networks. A suitable premise is that the student already has his own research topic or assigned work and, if possible, some results that he can use for homework and preparation.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance assessment, Analysis of creative work (musical, visual, literary), Systematic student observation
Regular attendance of the meetings (at least 70%), preparation of home-works - video of you presenting, CV, graphical abstract, presentation of 3 slides etc. Six out of the 7 home-works need to be submitted.
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Recommended literature
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Borja, A. (2014) 11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously. Elsevier Connect.
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Introduction to Scientific Communication (Swiss Federal Institution, https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/usys/ibp/soil-terrestrial-env-physics-dam/education/sientific_comm/2015/Introduction_Scientific_communication_ETH_2015.pdf).
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Larkin, M. (2015) How to give a dynamic scientific presentation. Elsevier Connect.
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Scientific poster design (https://hsp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ScientificPosters.pdf).
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