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2021　ALP Advanced Practice II D

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Academic unit or major
Career development courses
Instructor(s)
Akagi Hirofumi  Osakada Kohtaro  Kobayashi Takao  Nakamura Haruo  Niwa Junichiro 
Class Format
Lecture / Exercise     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Mon3-4()  
Group
D
Course number
LAC.A642
Credits
1
Academic year
2021
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2021/10/6
Lecture notes updated
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Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

Doctoral students provide the ability of writing easily-understandable scientific or technical papers, presenting them at international conferences, and/or submitting them to top-level international journals and having them published in the journals. The students are required to understand and recognize the followings: 1) To understand both similarity and difference between an essay and a scientific or technical paper. 2) Not only to refer to paper writing of a top-level journal in the research field of each student, but also to understand both similarity and difference between a Japanese scientific or technical paper and an English one. 3) To recognize differences in paper presentation technique between Japanese research scientists and European/American ones.
This course consists of seven classes by five emeritus professors at Toyo Tech. It gives a practical lecture on how to write and present a scientific or technical paper. Then, each student writes and presents a part of his/her research paper, followed by instructors' editing and commenting.

Student learning outcomes

This course will make it possible for students to do the following items:
1) Understand both similarity and difference between Japanese papers and English papers.
2) Learn various tips and tricks related to English paper writing and presentation.
3) Practice how to prepare better English Power Point slides

Keywords

English paper writing skills, English paper presentation skills, Comprehension skills, Communication skills.

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills ✔ Communication skills Critical thinking skills ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

The five instructors are classified into two groups: One is two instructors each of whom
give two classes and the other is three instructors each of whom gives one class. The five instructors pay attention to technical papers writing and/or presentation in various research fields. The course flow is based on the combination of lectures and experiences/exercises in
writing and presentation. Please be careful of the following important information:
1) Tokyo Tech “OCW-i” will be used to communicate between each instructor and students, including Zoom URL information, class materials, and students' reports.
2) The number of students who can register for this course is 20 in maximum. When it is more than 20 students, the students will be selected from their TOEIC scores and JLPT levels.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 December 6, Monday 10:40-12:20, Zoom Lecture on how to write and present English papers, by Hirofumi Akagi How to write and present English papers
Class 2 December 13, Monday 10:40-12:20, Zoom Lecture and Practice on how to write and present English papers I, by Haruo Nakamura How to write and present English papers
Class 3 December 20, Monday 10:40-12:20, Zoom Lecture and Practice on how to write and present English papers II, by Haruo Nakamura How to write and present English papers
Class 4 January 13, Thursday 10:40-12:20, Zoom Lecture and Practice on how to write English papers, by Kohtaro Osakada How to write English papers
Class 5 January 17, Monday 10:40-12:20, Zoom Lecture and Practice on how to write English papers, by Takao Kobayashi How to write English papers
Class 6 January 24, Monday 10:40-12:20, Zoom Lecture and Practice on how to present English papers I, by Junichiro Niwa How to present English papers
Class 7 January 31, Monday 10:40-12:20, Zoom Lecture and Practice on how to present English papers II, by Junichiro Niwa How to present English papers

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Students can download lecture materials from OCW-i.

Assessment criteria and methods

Evaluation by the submitted reports.
When a student is absent in a class, his/her grade point may be reduced.

Related courses

  • ALP Advanced Practice I

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

1) International students can register for this class. However, they have the ability of a N1 level in the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).
2) Japanese students have the ability of higher than 700 points in TOEIC, or an equivalent one.
3) As a general rule, each of doctoral students, who belongs to his/her doctoral course for less than six months, cannot register for this course.

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