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UniCERT IV A

UniCERT IV A. Outline. Quick task list. For next week: Library Experience For the next 7-8 weeks: choose a text from the materials in the copyshop folder ("Dr Evans UniCERT 4") and present it From beginning of December on: AP (1) LSP (2) Draft

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UniCERT IV A

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  1. UniCERT IV A Outline

  2. Quick task list • For next week: Library Experience • For the next 7-8 weeks: choose a text from the materials in the copyshop folder ("Dr Evans UniCERT 4") and present it • From beginning of December on: AP • (1) LSP • (2) Draft • (3) Submission of paper (on the last day of semester)

  3. Communication during the semester • Myofficehoursare: • WED 17-19 in G40C-253 andbyappointment • Email: rob.evans@ovgu.de • Website: http://www.ovgu.de/evans • Everythingconcerningthiscourseistobefound on mysite

  4. Aim of the course • Do the groundwork necessary for an academic paper to be written • Acquaint participants with notions of academic („wissenschaftlich“) work • Discussion, argument and dialogue • Presentation technique(s) • Literature search and research question formulation

  5. Library Experience and Report-back • In thefirstandsecondweeksofthesemesteryou will gointothe Uni-Library tothe Zeitschriften forWiWi in particularandelsewherewherenecessary • You will firstacquaintyourselfwiththerangeof English-languagejournals in MD • You will thenchoose 1 articlefromthe last 2 years in a journalofyourchoice (andinterest) or, ifthishasbeenpermitted, fromthemonographicandeditedworks in thelibrary. • NO electronic textsareallowed in thistask. • NO MAGAZINES!

  6. LER contd • In classyou will beaskedtoreportverybrieflyaboutyourlibraryexperienceandyourarticle • Your report-back will includeinformationaboutthemaintopicofthechosenarticle/book/editedbook, themainarguments (named, not explained) andthebroadconclusion in thebriefestpossible form. This is a summarizingandinformingtaskandreflects back on yourwillingnessandabilitytobefocusedandmindfulofyourpeers. • You will hand in electronically 1 page A4 reporting on thelibraryexplorationexperience, withthebriefsummaryofthearticle (50-70 wordsonly!) andfullbibliographicaldetails

  7. Fullbibliographicdetails • Author(s) (Year) Title. In: Journal Name, Vol. Nr., pp. Xx-yy. • You will beexpected – as a matter ofcourse– tohaveacquaintedyourselfrightfromthebeginningwiththeplaceofpublication, thedetailsofthejournal, informationaboutmethodsorconditionsofpublication, abouttheauthor(s), theirmethods, theirresults, theirotherwork, theworkofotherstheyhaveemployed, etc.

  8. Plan of the course • Introduction • Presentations (Weeks 4-10 ) • Thenroughly: • Week 9: researchprotocols (LSPs) • Week 10 -13: draftintroduction • Weeks10-14/15 : tutorials • End Week14/15: submissionofpaper

  9. In-course presentations • Topics: thissemestertheover-archingthemesare • GlobalisationandSustainability • Gender andGlobalisation • GlobalisationandDevelopment • Globalisationand Culture • Eachparticipant will takeoneofthetexts in thecopyshop, online orsenttothem • A presentationof20-25 mins plus discussion will begiven • Vital: a handout (A4), sources (settext plus othersources) discussed, discussionpoints

  10. CARSON BAUER SEN FRANK CASTELLS MOGHADAM etc Texts which are now somewhat „out-of-date“will need to be put in their time-context in the light of more recent developments It is expected, too, that each participant does their best to make connections between their own text and what they have heard from others. Texts and topics: for example "globalisation theories"

  11. Texts and topics: approaches • Read thetextyou will presentcarefully • Makenotes on whatisfamiliar, whatisunfamiliar, whatyou do not understand, whatyou find strangeorunexpected. • Considercarefullywhatthemainassumptions in thetextare: whatassumptionsdoestheauthormakeaboutthereader (beliefs, culture, knowledge), abouttheworld? • Try towork out howyoucancommunicateyourownreactiontothetexttoyouraudiencewithoutshowingdisrespecttothetextortotheauthor. • The aimoftheacademicpresentationistoexamine an ideafrom different pointsofview

  12. Before the presentation • Informyourselfaboutyourtext – theotherswon‘tknowanythingaboutit, youarethe expert • Consider links tootherthingsyouknow in yourfield, considerdifferences, too • Try tousethetexttochallengewhatyou (thinkyou) know • Remain outside ofthetext, looking in, at theauthor, thetextandanyothersourcesofinformationorargumentyouhave

  13. Part 2 The academic paper

  14. Some preliminary points regarding the academic paper • It is very possible to fail. • Failure may be due to: • Language • Academic level • Use of sources (e.g. plagiarism) • Length • Form

  15. Non-submission • It is sadly not unknown for students to sit through the whole course and then fade away when the writing phase begins • It is also not unknown for students to complete ALL the individual tasks except the paper itself • The consequence in both cases is a fail • Should a student „fade away“ before completing all the individual tasks, s/he will be required to repeat this part of the course. • What is valid for my course is valid, too, for Mr Harper‘s course. Both must be attended and completed.

  16. Marking the paper • 1-2: exceptional • 2-3: good • 3-4: satisfactory • 4: sufficient (normally only given if no progress can be expected) • 5: inadequate – which means: re-working and moving on to pass a second time round (this can be considered a real second chance) • Remember, good means just that, good.

  17. The academic paper • The topic is, in principle, open. • The title and focus is to be agreed with me. • There are a number of tasks that must be fulfilled on the way to writing the academic paper: • Library exploration and report task, Literature search protocol, Draft introduction, Submission

  18. Literature search (LSP) • The literature search excludes expressly all internet files which are not electronic journals • Electronic journals are exclusively understood to be electronic scholarly journals, to be found in the catalogues of university libraries, including, obviously the Uni-Bibliothek Magdeburg.

  19. Literature search protocol: form • The LSP must refer to at least: • 2 books („monograph“) • 3-5 scholarly articles – at least 2 of which should be from the Universitätsbibliothek Magdeburg and the others from any collection of electronic journals you may care to access (they can of course ALL be from the UB) • At least one page A4, probably 2.

  20. Bibliography • Fullbibliographicalreferencesforsourcescollected in preliminaryliteraturesearch • This will probablytakeaccountofcorrectionstoyour LSP • Producing a correctbibliographyis an essential step on thewaytoproducing an AP • A commentedbibliography will beattached at the end ofyour AP

  21. Rough draft introduction • A first draft of your introduction should be submitted for discussion in a tutorial • This should help you to get your bearings regarding style and content of the paper as a whole • It should be around 500 words in length.

  22. Sources • Sources for the academic paper should be predominantly books and scholarly articles • The language of the sources should be overwhelmingly English, unless the topic requires specialist literature (e.g. cheese-making in rural Mongolia) • Web-sites are of course welcome as secondary sources, but citeable literature is to be preferred.

  23. Internet and other sources and plagiarism • Wikipaedia is NOT acceptable as a source • Commercial magazines ('International Baker', or 'Car-Dealer's Monthly' or IBM Newsletter or RWE Nachrichten or whatever) are NOT academic sources • Sources do NOT become academic by demonstrating that the author has a PhD or is a Professor (somewhere) just as the quality of wine is not guaranteed by the simple fact that it is made from grapes or cheese from milk • Newspapers are … newspapers, not scientific sources

  24. Plagiarism(†Baron zu Guttenberg in memoriam) • EVERYsourceyouuse – andthepointoftheacademicpaperistousesources – MUST BE INDICATED, otherwiseyou will beguiltyofplagiarism • In a numberofuniversities, plagiarismis a punishableoffence (e.g. Bayreuth, askMr zu Guttenberg) • Itisnormallyextremely easytodetectplagiarisedtext • Itsimplyis not worththerisk, apart frombeingdownrightpathetic

  25. Nota bene • The academic paper should be neither • Descriptive (how it is done) • Nor • Prescriptive (how to do it) • Rather, it should be • Analytical (what are the different views expressed about the topic?) • and • Carefully weighing up (on balance, it seems that)

  26. Submission • Submission ofthe AP isfixedforthelast dayofthesemester • Completepackage: 1 academicpaper, anyprintedarticleornetsourcesasappendix, 1 conferencehandout, 1 commentedbibliography, 1 signedeidestattliche Erklärung (link on website) anydownloadedorothersources(e.g. pdfs) on a CD

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