A class for postgraduate students to learn thesis writing at Yunnan University
This course has 18 hours and requires two classes per week for nine weeks.
In person classes will be held:
- Time: every Friday (from 3rd November to 29 December - 9 weeks) sessions 1 (8:30-9:15am) & 2 (9:25-10:10am).
- Venue: Room 1211, Wenhui Building (Building 1), Chenggong Campus. You can access this course right now at https://johnmeasey.github.io/Thesis-Writing-Guide/
- The philosophy of science – why we need to record what we do; standing on the shoulders of giants; publication
- The hypo-deductive model in science – big questions in your field; reviewing the literature; how to write a hypothesis; citing the literature
- A formula for thesis writing – introduction; methods; results; discussion
- Nuts and bolts of writing – sentences; paragraphs; logical arguments; examples; citation databases
- When science goes wrong – publication bias; the evolution of bad science; rewards and retractions
- Open Science – transparency; the movement for Open Science; data curation
- Time management and Mental Health – choosing a journal; preparing your submission; Open Access and reviewing models
- Submitting to a journal and Peer Review – submission framework; writing a rebuttal; how to conduct peer review
- Your future in science – scientific living; in and out of academia; networks; careers
Each week you will have an online task that will require you to follow a set of instructions to produce a product that we will discuss in class (or online).
- Finding, exploring and tracking your keywords in a literature database
- Writing paragraphs
The course will be pulled from the two course texts:
This is an Open Access book by John Measey, and published in 2022 by CRC Press, Boca Raton.
You can read this book for free online at http://www.howtowriteaphd.org/, or purchase print or ebook edition from CRC Press.
View open-source code for source text and templates at here
and
This is an Open Access book by John Measey, and is also available in print from CRC Press (2022)
You can read this book for free online at https://howtopublishscience.org/, or purchase print or ebook edition from CRC Press here.
View open-source code for source text and templates at https://github.com/johnmeasey/Thesis-Writing-Guide
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This open-source repository is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. No installation or technical support will be provided.