I am greatful for the oportunity to give a series of lectures on Scientific Working at the University of Applied Science in Schmalkalden.
The following topics were covered in 6 sessions:
- Choosing and framing the topic
- Task and Time planing
- Search strategies
- Pro and Contra books
- Online: Wikipedia, Google Scholar, Scirus
- Smart search: Bool operators, distance operators, truncation, wildcards and more
- Break down search results
- Literature management systems
- Literature library of the university (Online-Library, Online-Magazines (Fr. Kritikou)
- Reading strategies
- Understand and abstract scientific texts
- Fast reading techniques
- Just write: flow of writing, obstacles
- Plagiarism
- Correct citing
- Creating useful diagrams
- Basic Latex introduction
Lecture notes are available in German on request.