Lectures

Research Seminar 101

This is the Research Seminar Lecture for Master Degree August 2022

Introduction

The research seminar topic offers the tools and hits for scientific writing. In this sense, along with the lectures, the student will develop its research proposal, a scientific poster, dissertation’s first chapter, and a first approach to write a conference paper. To develop this scientific writing skill, basic programming knowledge is required. Even more, if the student can handle it, a new OS is preferred.

This topic is a master degree topic and has been prepared for international attendant. Thus, all information and lectures contents will be covered in English.

Classroom and Github (New)

To join into the Google classroom group follow the next link or search the class with the code 3korjvd.

Next, joint to the Github Classroom group by following the next link to Github Classroom.

Important days

• Essay delivery: (Done)
• Keywords search:
• First proposals review:
• Poster presentation:
• Research protocol final delivery:
• Presentation dates:

Lecture’s supporting files and links

1. Introduction Lecture

After a brief introduction to this Lecture, now the student knows that he will prepare several products for the semester. Also, the student knows how the final evaluation will be. Here you can find the PDF files from:

• Introduction’s presentation
• Evaluation form

1.1 What a scientific paper is?

In order to understand the scientific publishing process, an historical review is presented in this lecture. The origin of the scientific societies and journals is also presented. Finally, the commercial publishing houses and the actual way to manage the open access fashion is discussed together with the actual and questionable publishing process.

• Scientific Paper’s presentation
• Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption

1.2 Creating an essay

Now, the student has a defined a topic to write an essay. It is recommended to use basic grammar structures and avoid long and wordy paragraphs; try to use the third-person or passive voice style.

The essay’s beamer presentation and its complementary data can be downloaded here:

• Introduction to scientific writing: Writing an Essay Beamer presentation
• Essay example: How to prepare academic documents avoiding Word

Next, you will find how your Essay will be evaluated (essay’s signature):

2. Basics of LaTeX

Along with this lecture, you will understand and practice LaTeX’s basic syntax. As well as the most common structures, commands, and packages. In the links below you can find the lecture’s presentation file, the Short – Math Guide from LaTeX, and the Source-File Edited during the class:

• Lecture’s presentation file
• Short – Math Guide for LaTeX
• Git repository for class example

3. Research basics

This lecture is about researching basics. A basic guide to help you think like a researcher and judge a research project. Also, some basic tips to state your thesis, hypothesis, and objectives. Finally, you will understand to classify your own research project as theoretical, practical, or applied.

Here is the Beamer presentation support document:

• Beamer presentation
• Code used in class - 14th February 2023

4. The protocol

This lecture is about the basic structure of a research proposal. The proposal is based on a LaTeX template. The files are here:

• Lecture Beamer presentation
• Protocol LaTeX Template
• How to write your protocol Wiki

5. Biblography administrator (Zotero or Mendeley)

This lecture is focused in search, read, and judge research papers or thesis that will be used as reference. But, be careful, the references should be a high-qulity and support your work.

6. PGFPlots

The lecture discusses examples of plots using the LaTeX package PGFPlots.

• Repository examples

7. The poster class

The lecture introduces the CCQH approach to state the structure of your poster. Also a basic code example is given to test the tikzposter class:

• Lecture Beamer presentation
• MCIE’s Poster template
• Poster Evaluation Form

Poster’s basic code

%Preamble
\documentclass[a0paper, 25pt, portrait]{tikzposter}
\title{My New and Relevant Poster}
\author{Gerardo Marx, Homer Simpson \& Max Plank}
\institute{ITM}
\titlegraphic{logo}
\usetheme{Rays}
%\usecolorstyle{Germany}
%Body
\begin{document}
	\maketitle
	\block{Introduction}{
	Some text for the introduction section}
	\begin{columns}
	\column{0.3}
	\block{Methodology}{
	Text\\
	Text\\
	Text\\}
	%%%%%
	\column{0.7}
	\block{Methodology- Part 2}{
	Text\\
	Text\\
	Text\\}
	\note{This is a small note}	
	\end{columns}
	
	\block{Results}{
	\begin{tikzfigure}
		\includegraphics{example-image-a}	
	\end{tikzfigure}
	}
	\block{Results-II}{
		\centering
		\begin{tabular}{ccc}
		Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3 \\\hline
		Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3 \\
		Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3 \\
		Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3 \\
		\end{tabular}}
\end{document}

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