Course overview
The purpose of this course is to teach students how to perform their research properly, how to find information on scientific articles from the university’s library, how to write an excellent scientific article for a conference or scientific journal and to help them present the results of their research.
What you will learn
- Acquire basic knowledge of how to find information from the library and international databases,
- Write successful scientific articles for scientific conferences and journals and excellent research proposals,
- Write very good scientific theses,
- Analyze and study a subject in depth and write a literature review on the subject,
- Acquire the knowledge on how to collect and process data.
Meet your instructor
Petros AristidouCourse content
- Unit 1 Research Basics Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Empirical Methodology for Conducting Research Chapter 3 Formal Methodology for Conducting Research Chapter 4 Research Supervision
- Unit 2 Library Tools and Literature Search Chapter 1 Library Tools Chapter 2 Library Search Chapter 3 Database Search Tips Chapter 4 Digital Libraries
- Unit 3 Literature Review Chapter 1 Types of Scientific Literature Chapter 2 Analyzing a Scientific Paper Chapter 3 Writing a Paper Review Chapter 4 Systematic Literature Reviews
- Unit 4 Data Chapter 1 The Nature of Data Chapter 2 Collecting Primary Data Chapter 3 Collecting and Analyzing Secondary Data Chapter 4 Quantitative Data Analysis Chapter 5 Qualitative Data Analysis
- Unit 5 Writing Up your Work Chapter 1 Writing a Scientific Research Paper Chapter 2 Writing a Thesis
Teaching methodology
Lectures, group discussion, independent research, collaborative discussion.
Assessment
- Presentation of thesis topic (20%) Student needs to present their thesis topic in front of an audience.
- Written literature review report (50%) Student needs to write a literature review on a selected topic.
- Presentation of literature report (30%) Student needs to present their literature review in front of an audience.