ELE-3615 Scientific Writing - 5 stp

This course will introduce scientific writing skills, as a preparatory course for writing a master thesis. Scientific writing as communication form to peers will be introduced and put into historical context together with ethics, plagiarism, proper use of references, and methods to perform a literature study. Relevant writing tools like Word, LaTeX, Endnote and artificial intelligence assisted tools will be introduced and discussed. Popular science writing has a different target audience, but still important for communicating science to the public and will be addressed as well.

The course output will be a pre-project report with a literature study and a plan for a master thesis within the same topic. Methods for organizing and planning research projects is therefore included in the course and will be a part of the pre-project report.

A relevant undergraduate Bachelor Engineering program with minimum 25 credits mathematics, 5 credits statistics, 7,5 credits physics.

Application code: 9371

After passing this course, the student shall have the following learning outcome:

Knowledge:

The candidate will have:

• The candidate has knowledge about the historical background and current practice of scientific publishing and writing.
• The candidate will have insight to the ethics of science.
• The candidate have insight into the use of scientific databases and proper use of references.

Skills:

• The candidate can perform a scientific literature review on a defined topic.
• The candidate can search for and critically assess scientific literature.
• The candidate can individually write a scientific text and present results according to scientific standards in the field.
• The candidate can from research questions and hypotheses based on a defined problem description and a literature study.
• The candidate can define and plan a research project in the form of a master thesis within a defined topic and scope.
• The candidate can describe their scientific work in a simplified popular science text

General competence:

• The candidate will have an overview of relevant tools and software for scientific writing.
• The candidate will have an overview of the possibility and challenges in using artificial intelligence.