About ISA6882, Spring 2021

This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in enhancing their presentation and research skills. The objective of this course is: 1) guide students to recognize the research steps; 2) identify their research topics; and 3) write a research proposal in the related fields. Students will learn how to find an interesting IT application problem by surveying a specific application domain, understand the current information techniques available to solve the problem, assess the applicability and weakness of the current IT technology to the problem, narrow down specific aims as research goal for writing a research problem.

Text Book

  1. John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0472034758, University of Michigan Press
  2. Frederick J Gravetter & Lori-Ann B. Forzano, Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences, https://books.google.com.tw/books?id=Kzx-BAAAQBAJ

References

  1. Useful Links for Ph.D. Students collected by Prof. San-Yih Hwang

Time in 2021

  • Tuesdays 9:00-12:00

Location

  • Delta 615

People

Supporting this course

Instructor:

Yi-Shin Chen

Yi-Shin Chen
  • email: yishin@gmail.com
  • phone: +886-3-573-1211

Teaching Assistants:

Fernando Calderon

Fernando Calderon
  • email: fhcalderon87@gmail.com
  • office: Delta 701

Syllabus

Orientation

2021/2/23 for 3 hours

You will get familiar with the course, the instructor, your classmates, and the learning environment. The overview of the course will also be covered during the same session.

Activities

Research and Presentation Overview

2021/3/2, 3/9 for 6 hours

What is research? We will have an overview this week. In these three hours, we also cover the tips of presentation skills and the correct attitude for listening presentations.

Activities

Presentation Skills

2021/3/16, 2021/3/23 for 6 hours

This session will cover the tips of presentations.

Activities

Proposal Writing

2021/3/30 for 3 hours

This session will cover the tips of writing a research proposal in the related fields.

Activities

  • Reading: Unit 1 of Textbook 1

Private Discussion

2021/4/6 for 3 hours

Students need to identify their corresponding research topic before the end of this week. It it quite important for students to discuss with their own advisers and instructors.

Activities

  • No class for this week
  • Identify a research topic
  • Schedule private meeting with either your own advisor or the lecturer to clarify the research topics

First Student Presentation

2021/4/13 for 3 hours

Students need to present their research topics, motivation, related works, and objectives.

Activities

  • Form a group of 3~5 people
  • Assignment 1 due at 4/28

Practice Presentation Skills

2021/4/20 for 3 hours

Students of their groups should select presenters the revised slides. We will practice the skills in this session.

Activities

Research Strategies - Hypothesis, Objectives, And Methods

2021/4/27 for 3 hours

Different research strategies will be covered in this session. We will discuss the differences between hypothesis, objectives, and methodology.

Activities

  • Reading: Chapter 2 of Textbook 2
  • Reading: Chapter 6 of Textbook 2

Research Framework Design

2021/5/4 for 3 hours

Students will discuss their framework design in the classroom.

Activities

  • Reading: Unit 7 of Textbook 1

Second Student Presentation

2021/5/11 for 3 hours

Students need to present their research topics, motivation, objectives, hypothesis, and proposed methods.

Activities

  • Assignment 2 due at 5/16

Writing Practices

2021/5/25, 2021/6/1, 2021/6/8 for 9 hours

We will study the selected papers and understand the paper structures and flows

Activities

  • Assignment 3 Due at 6/6
  • Reading: Unit 2 and Unit 3 of Textbook 1

Poster

2021/6/15 for 3 hours

Students should present their research topics in public.