(in Polish) Presenting and publishing internationally 1600-SZD-PAPI
Nowadays doing academic research is rarely a purely national activity. We present our work at international conferences, for international research funds and investors and collaborate with colleagues from all over the world. We also publish in international journals for an international reading audience.
Presenting and publishing internationally requires certain skills that may differ from what you are accustomed to nationally. Vice versa, some international skills or requirements can help you improve your national skills in writing and presenting. Therefore, a course on presenting and publishing internationally is useful for every PhD student.
This course exists of five (6) meetings, which each will last for three (4) teaching hours (in total 24 teaching hours). Each meeting is dedicated to one aspect to be successful in presenting for an international audience or publishing in an international journal. This includes delivering a 10 minutes presentation and a one minute elevator pitch; writing an abstract, including the selection of key words; writing an introduction; working with a literature review; receiving and delivering feedback; and how to deliver your message (what is your storyline?).
The meetings will be in the form of workshops, which means that you will work with materials of your own research that you may have to prepare anyway. Furthermore, the style of the meetings will be interactive, which means that you will work together and that we will make use of the Socrates-method (questions), flipped classroom (you talk; the teacher guides) and peer review (you review and comment on each other’s work).
In general this is a skills-course more than one based on a particular academic substance. As such, the course is open for a wide group of PhD-students. Although each academic field has its own specifics, when presenting and publishing for an international audience, there are many similarities. The focus of this course is, obviously, on these similarities.
NB This is not a language course!!!
Time Location Class topic
20 February 2023, 2-5 pm, R2.06 Iuridicum I, Presenting yourself, research & elevator pitch
27 February 2023, 2-5 pm, R2.06 Iuridicum I, Abstracts and key-words
13 March 2023, 2-5 pm, R2.06 Iuridicum I, Introduction
27 March 2023, 2-5 pm, R2.06 Iuridicum I, Literature review
03 April 2023, 2-5 pm, R2.06 Iuridicum I, Receiving, giving and dealing with feedback
17 April 2023, 2-5 pm, R2.06 Iuridicum I, Finding your “storyline”
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student should:
- know what the specifics are for presenting for an international audience;
- know what the specifics are for publishing in an international journal;
- understand the specifics of cultural differences in presenting and publishing;
- understand the importance of and how to conduct a systematic literature review;
- know how to give proper feedback, how to deal with (poor) feedback, and how to use feedback to your advantage; and
- understand the importance of presenting with a storyline and how to find a storyline.
After completing the course, the student should have acquired the following skills:
- how to present for an international audience;
- how to write for an international audience;
- how to give, receive and process feedback;
- how to formulate effective key-words;
- how to write a compelling abstract;
- how to conduct a systematic literature review;
- how to convey a message to an international audience in a persuasive presentation;
- how to convey a message to an international audience in a convincing publication;
- how to convey a message via a coherent, consistent and persuasive storyline.
Assessment criteria
Description of requirements related to participation in classes, including the permitted number of explained absences
Students are required to prepare assignments. These assignments include:
- Searching for particular materials. For example a video of a presentation that is perceived as either very good or very bad, or selecting an article with a very good or bad abstract or introduction. Both with the purpose of analyzing what makes something to be perceived as particularly good or bad. For these searches specific guidelines will be provided;
- Formulation of as many key-words as possible related to the student’s own research to be presented and discussed in the workshops, in order to get a feeling what is an effective key-word and what not;
- Preparing a 5-minute presentation about a paper/chapter of the research;
- Preparing an elevator pitch;
- Writing an abstract;
- Writing an introduction;
- Reviewing a presentation, abstract or introduction from one of the classmates;
- Deliver feedback and receive feedback.
Since the course is work-intensive and the different workshops are related to each other, a maximum explained absence of one (1) is permitted during the entire course.
Principles for passing the course and the subject (including resit session)
Passing the course is based on the following five deliverables:
1. A presentation prepared and delivered;
2. An elevator pitch prepared and delivered;
3. An abstract, including key-words, written;
4. An introduction written;
5. One feedback performed.
No more than one deliverable can be missed in order to pass course. The deliverables will be marked based on efforts and proven reflections on what is exchanged and learned during the workshops.
When insufficient efforts have been made, a deliverable can be re-taken during the course. After the last workshop of the course, students will have one additional (working) week to complete or re-take on or more of the deliverables.
An additional re-take can be done after the final deadline regarding all the deliverable(s). This can be done on one or several deliverables, depending on what will be needed.
It fits with the nature of the course, developing skills, that the end result of each of the deliverables should fulfil the requirements of being a finished product that is ready for successful presenting of publishing internationally.
Methods for the verification of learning outcomes;
Assessment of the five deliverables being up to the requirements for presenting and publishing internationally. During the course specific requirements will be shared with the students, although, they first have to “discover” them via the indicated methods.
Evaluation criteria:
The evaluation criteria will be developed with the students together as part of the workshop on feedback. In general a student will pass the course when at least 4 out of 5 deliverables have been performed with sufficient efforts.
Additional information
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