Courses:

Communication Skills for Academics >> Content Detail



Calendar / Schedule



Calendar





LEC #TOPICSREADINGSDUE
1Course Overview: Basic Communication Skills, Strategy Listening, Giving Feedback

Teaching note. Active Listening and Reflective Responses.

Barnes. Managing Interpersonal Feedback.

2Oral Presentations: The Basics
Delivering Conference Papers Workshop: Introducing Your Research Interests
Donald, Bruce Randall. "How to Give a Good Talk." http://www.cs.duke.edu/brd/Teaching/Previous/Animation/giving-a-talk.html

Radel, Jeff. "Developing a Poster Presentation." http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/Poster_Presentations/PstrStart.html

Edwards, Paul. "How to Give a Talk: Changing the Culture of Academic Public Speaking." (PDF)

"Creating a Poster Using MSPowerPoint." http://limacenter.osu.edu/Poster/Index.html
Prepare a 2-3 minute oral summary of your research interests aimed at other students in the class
3Oral Presentations: The Job Talk Workshop: The 60-second Elevator Pitch
Writing: Genres of Academic Writing
Frost and Stablein. Journeys 1 and 2. Pp. 19-76.Prepare a 60-second elevator pitch about your research interests aimed at senior academics in your field
4Writing (and Reading) Journal Articles and Conference PapersZerubavel. Pp. 1-13 (read); pp. 14-98 (skim).

Lanham. "Who's Kicking Who."

Berkenkotter, Huckin, and Ackerman. "Social Context and Socially Constructed Texts" (skim).

An article of your choice in your target journal/conference.
Topic and target audience (conference, journal, etc.) of written assignment and oral assignment
5Surviving the Reviewing Process and Getting Published

Reviewing Papers for Journals and Conferences
Cummings and Frost. Pp. 257-268.

Gans and Shepherd. "How Are the Mighty Fallen:..."

Teaching note. "Writing Peer Reviews of Manuscripts."

AMJ Reviewer Guidelines, http://aom.pace.edu/amjnew/reviewer_guidelines.html

Lee, Allen. "Reviewing a Manuscript for Publication." http://www.people.vcu.edu/~aslee/referee.htm

Optional: Cummings and Frost, pp. 13-43, 151-202.

Optional: Allen Lee, Editor's Comments, MISQ, 23, No. 4 (a case study of the editorial process for one article). http://www.misq.org/archivist/vol/no23/issue4/edstat.html
One-page analysis of target audience/journal for written assignment
6Teaching: The Basics
Managing Discussions, Using Cases
Workshop: Peer Reviewing of Draft Journal or Conference Review
Christensen. "The Discussion Teacher in Action: Questioning, Listening, and Response."

Breslow. "Contracts in the Classroom."

Rhem. "Deep/Surface Approaches to Learning: An Introduction."
7PresentationsFinal version, journal or conference review
8Presentations
9Presentations
10Interviewing for Field Work or Conducting a Job Search

Peer Reviewing of Written Assignment
Draft of written assignment for peer reviewing (two copies)
11Presentations (optional re-do)
12Presentations (optional re-do)
13Course Wrap-UpFinal version, written assignment
 


 



 








© 2010-2021 OpenCollege.com, All Rights Reserved.
Open College is a service mark of AmeriCareers LLC.