Course intro including
Syllabus, assignments, grades.
Critiquing a presentation
How to give a presentation.
Powerpoint fundamentals.
Mechanics of a literature search (online demo - bring laptops)

Review papers
Purposes, audiences.
How to write YOUR review paper for this course.

List of 10 best journals with URLs & URLs for e-mail TOCs (electronic only Phil & Lidia)

Scientific advance
Big & small questions
Narrowing to the tractable

Scientific Advances assignment

Topic for your review (electronic only Phil & Lidia)

Proposals
Types, RFPs, selling an idea & structure of a pitch.
Writing the proposal for this course.

Big Questions assignment

Grant Questions assignment (from last week)

Formatted bibliography with 50+ refs on your topic
(electronic only Phil & Lidia)

Logic of statistical inference
Proof, support, & refutation.
Hypothesis vs. theory.
What statistics mean.
Value of hypothesis testing.

Present big Q and proposal ideas in groups. Work to improve articulation & approaches.

Review paper formatting instructions.
Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: writing and editing for biomedical publication

Topic for research proposal
(bring 6 paper copies for group, plus 6 of your big Q from last week)

Experimental design, controls, intrusion

Pseudoreplication Challenge

Gordon ch 5,6
Hurlbert 1984

8 Oct

How to succeed in grad school.
Mo Donnelly, Assoc. Dean.

Mo's PPT.file (2.8MB)

Thompson 2002
Stearns 1987
Huey 1987

Design "Evalutation of learning event"

Literature review
(3 paper copies
Lidia, Phil, your advisor)

Graphics in science
Drawing, graphing data, design of figures, concept maps

Russell & Morrison ch 3-6
Sample NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (1.5MB PDF)

NSF evaluation criteria

Two-page double-spaced proposal "pitch", includes big & narrow questions and specific aims.

Download and start using these:
proposal instructions
proposal template
budget form

Scientific Presentations
Graphing different kinds of data
Graphics & Powerpoint
Improving graphics.

Kroodsma & Byers 2000
Pechenik ch 12
review Pechenik ch 14, 15

Ethical issues for grad students: IACUC, IBR, honesty, authorship, fraud, romance, etc.

Kevles DJ, "The assault on David Baltimore," The New Yorker, May 27, 1996, p. 94

Gunsalus CK 1998. How to blow the whistle and still have a career afterwards. Science and Engineering Ethics 4:51-64

Review Panels