Instructor

Lecture Hours

  • Mondays 13:00 ~ 15:30

Venue

  • Room 1101, E3-1

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)