Course intro including
Syllabus, assignments, grades.
Critiquing 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)

Approaching & Learning Science
Inquiry vs. hypothesis testing.
Teaching science.

Topic for your review (electronic only Phil & Lidia)

Scientific advance
Big & small questions
Narrowing to the tractable

Scientific Advances.
Asking BIG & small Questions

1. Scientific Advances assignment
2. 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.

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

1. Big Questions assignment

2, Grant Questions assignment (from last week)

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

Scientific Presentations
How to organize an oral presentation.

discussion of grant paragraphs

6 Oct

Graphics in science
Data exploration graphics vs.
presentation graphics

How to succeed in grad school

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)

Grant proposals
organization & formats, budgets, red tape (IACUC, IRB, clearance)

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

Experimental design, controls, intrusion

Pseudoreplication Challenge

Gordon ch 5,6
Hurlbert 1984

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