Instructor
Lecture Hours
Venue
Course Resources
Primary Reference
- Justin Zobel, Writing for Computer Science, 3rd edition, 2014.
Secondary References
- Diana C. Reep, Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings, 8th edition, Pearson, 2011.
- Ken W. Houp et al., Reporting Technical Information, 11th edition, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Lyn Dupré, BUGS in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose, 2nd edition, Academic Press, 1998.
Evaluation Criteria
- Literature Review: 15%
- Proposal: 20%
- Final Report: 30%
- Oral Presentation: 15%
- Attendance / Class Participation: 20%
- Grading by A/B/C
Schedule
- Week 1: Course Overview; Introduction; Getting Started
- Week 2: Reading and Reviewing
- Week 3: Korean Thanksgiving (no class)
- Week 4: Hypotheses, Questions, and Evidence
- Week 5: Writing a Paper; Good Style
- Week 6: National Foundation Day (no class)
- Week 7: Hangul Proclamation Day (no class)
- Week 8: Midterm Exam Period (no exam; no class)
- Week 9: Style Specifics, Punctuation
- Week 10: Mathematics; Algorithms
- Week 11: Graphs, Figures, and Tables
- Week 12: Other Professional Writing; Editing
- Week 13: Experimentation
- Week 14: Presentations; Ethics
- Week 15: Oral Presentations
- Week 16: Final Exam Period (no exam; no class)
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