Syllabus
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| Day | Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | 03/18/22 | 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM | D2.0.342 Teacher Training Raum |
| Friday | 04/08/22 | 09:00 AM - 02:00 PM | D2.1.491 |
| Monday | 04/25/22 | 09:00 AM - 02:00 PM | D2.1.491 |
| Monday | 05/16/22 | 12:00 PM - 03:30 PM | EA.5.030 |
| Friday | 05/20/22 | 10:00 AM - 01:30 PM | D2.2.487 |
This seminar is designed as a hands-on workshop for PhD students to develop a storyline for an extended abstract as well as a power point presentation of their current research project. As such, the seminar will be especially effective for students that plan to attend a conference with their research project in the following months.
The seminar will provide the theoretical foundations behind top-down communication and transfer them to the context of academic communication. In particular, the seminar will cover the following modules:
- The logical group of communication, the elevator pitch of your research, identification and communication of the research gap and contribution of your research project
- The logical chain of communication, the storyline of convincing conference presentations and paper abstracts
- “Golden rules” of effective conference presentations, concise power point slides, best practices in tables and graphical representations
This seminar aims at assisting PhD students in developing a concise presentation of their research project.
- Students will improve their communication skills in an academic and business context by applying and training the logic of top-down communication. As such, they should be enabled to communicate the research gap and the contribution of their research project more precisely.
- In a hands-on workshop format, you should leave the seminar with a clean and compelling presentation deck and an accompanying extended abstract for your current research project. The extended abstract can also serve as input for your official PhD proposal to be submitted.
- By reflecting on the projects of their peers, PhD students improve their ability to provide constructive feedback in a peer review process, to gain new insights, and/or to acquire new research ideas.
The success of the course critically depends on the participation in the seminar workshops and hence a minimum of 80% attendance is expected.
| The aim of the seminar is to go hand in hand with the ongoing research activities of the PhD students. The seminar will be a mix of theoretical input, hands-on exercises, in-class work on your projects, and individual coaching sessions: - The first seminar date will be dedicated to lay the theoretical foundations of top-down communication and storylining. Please come prepared to quickly orally introduce your research topic to all seminar participants. The theory will be applied to your research topic in several hands-on exercises. In addition, the afternoon of the seminar will be dedicated to successful power point designs. For this, participations are invited to send in selected slides they are struggling with how to distill the main message or how to present their findings etc. - The second seminar date will be hold as individual coaching sessions to work on your storyline and conference presentation. Please come prepared with the current status of a power point presentation, already incorporating the lessons learnt from the first session. - The final seminar date will structure as joint presentation day where all participants present their conference presentation, followed by a detailed discussion and feedback session by all participants. This date can be used as dry-run if PhD students are planning to attend a conference in the following months. In addition, it is an opportunity to discuss challenges and receive feedback from peers in a risk free environment. |
Students will be assessed based on their final research presentation (50%), the extended abstract of their research project (40%), and their class participation (10%).
For this course we have the following scale:
- < 60% fail (5)
- 60% bis 69,99% sufficient (4)
- 70% bis 79,99% satisfactory (3)
- 80% bis 89,99% good (2)
- >= 90% excellent (1)
All PhD students across all Departments are happy to join. The seminar might be especially fruitful if you have already kick-off a research topic and have initial insights, or are planning to attend a conference or have to present in a different form in the following months.
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