Teaching Survival Skills Through Research Papers

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Melanie Vickers
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Survival Skills

Writing a research paper, if broken down into clearly defined steps, will enhance communication skills and feelings of success.

Analysis on Research Paper Publication Recommendation System with Composition of Papers and Conferences Matrices

2020 ◽  
pp. 120-127
Author(s):  
Htay Htay Win ◽  
Aye Thida Myint ◽  
Mi Cho Cho
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Dimensionality Reduction ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Right ◽  
Publication Recommendation

For years, achievements and discoveries made by researcher are made aware through research papers published in appropriate journals or conferences. Many a time, established s researcher and mainly new user are caught up in the predicament of choosing an appropriate conference to get their work all the time. Every scienti?c conference and journal is inclined towards a particular ?eld of research and there is a extensive group of them for any particular ?eld. Choosing an appropriate venue is needed as it helps in reaching out to the right listener and also to further one’s chance of getting their paper published. In this work, we address the problem of recommending appropriate conferences to the authors to increase their chances of receipt. We present three di?erent approaches for the same involving the use of social network of the authors and the content of the paper in the settings of dimensionality reduction and topic modelling. In all these approaches, we apply Correspondence Analysis (CA) to obtain appropriate relationships between the entities in question, such as conferences and papers. Our models show hopeful results when compared with existing methods such as content-based ?ltering, collaborative ?ltering and hybrid ?ltering.

The Write Stuff

1986 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Colorado College ◽  
Self Protection

In recent years I've supervised countless undergraduate research papers and numerous senior theses. Not surprisingly, I repeat myself about basic research and writing hints, suggestions, and outright warnings. This handout, “Write Tigers Write!” prepared for the “tigers” at Princeton and The Colorado College (the mascot is the same), attempts to help the novice researcher and is, as well, an act of self-protection.What follows are suggestions and cautions for students writing a research paper. My suggestions are merely that. They are personal, general and speak more about writing than about research.Make no mistake about it. Research and writing are demanding work even for the professional. You won't hear professional scholars or writers boast about the easiness of their craft. No matter how much they love it, and they often love it more than anything else, they find it demanding, exacting, lonely and often painful—if they really work at it.

scholarly journals Why Do I Have to Write That?: Compositionists Identify Disconnects between Student and Instructor Conceptions of Research Writing that Can Inform Teaching

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Andrea Baer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Process ◽  
College Instructors ◽  
Writing Program ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Scholarly Research

A Review of: Schwegler, R. A., and Shamoon, L. K. (1982). The aims and process of the research paper. College English, 44(8), 817-824. Objectives – This classic article discusses research-based writing assignments. Schwegler and Shamoon sought to identify differences between college students’ and college instructors’ conceptions of research and research paper assignments, particularly in terms of their purpose and process. The authors also sought to identify common features of academic research writing that could inform writing instruction about research writing. Design – Qualitative interviews with college instructors and students about their views of the research process and about forms of research writing. Instructors were also interviewed about evaluation standards for academic research papers. Setting – Unspecified, though the description suggests a college or university in the United States. Subjects – College instructors and college students. (Number of subjects unspecified.) Methods – The authors, a university writing program director and a writing program instructor, conducted one-on-one interviews with college instructors and students about their views of research and the research paper. Questions focused on conceptions of the research process, the purposes of research, and the forms that research writing takes. Instructors were also asked about standards for effective evaluation of research papers. The limited description of the research methods and interview questions employed in this study hinder the ability to critically assess its validity and reliability. Potential limitations of the study, such as selection bias or unclear wording of interview questions, cannot be adequately assessed based on the provided information. The authors also do not identify limitations of their study. As is discussed in more detail in this review’s commentary, the study does not conform to the conventions of most research studies from the behavioral, health, physical, and social sciences. The authors’ methods, however, may be better understood in light of particular disciplinary approaches and debates in Composition Studies. Main Results – Interviewees’ responses illustrated notable differences between college instructors’ and college students’ conceptions of the process, purpose, forms, and audiences of research paper assignments. While instructors understood the research paper to be argumentative, analytical, and interpretive, students generally described it as informative and factual. Students, when asked why research papers are assigned, identified purposes such as learning more about a topic, demonstrating one’s knowledge, or learning to use the library. Instructors indicated that the purpose of the research paper includes testing a theory, building on previous research, and exploring a problem that has been presented by other research or events (p. 819). At the same time, most instructors described research as an ongoing pursuit of “an elusive truth” (p. 819), rather than as primarily factual in nature. According to Schwegler and Shamoon, instructors also indicated during interviews that research and writing involve a clear though complex pattern that is evident in the structure and conventions of research papers. For example, the research process usually begins with activities like reading, note-taking, identifying problems with and gaps in current research, and conversing with colleagues. These instructors also reported that writing conventions which are implicitly understood in their fields are used by other scholars to evaluate their peers’ work. Reflecting on these interview responses, Schwegler and Shamoon suggest that pedagogical approaches to writing instruction can be informed both by acknowledging disparities in students’ and instructors’ conceptions of research and by identifying shared characteristics of academic writing. The authors therefore make several general observations about the nature of professional research papers and describe the structure and conventions of academic research papers. They conclude that the structure of scholarly research papers across the disciplines reflects the research process. Such a paper opens with identification of a research problem and a review of current knowledge and is followed by a variation of four possible patterns: 1) Review of research, 2) Application or implementation of a theory, 3) Refute, refine, or replicate prior research, and 4) Testing a hypothesis ( pp. 822-823). Schwegler and Shamoon indicate that the key features of scholars’ writings are also apparent in student research papers which instructors evaluate as highly-ranked and absent in lower-ranked papers. Furthermore, they provide an appendix that outlines the essential textual features of a research paper (Appendix A) (p. 822). It is unclear, however, if these descriptions of scholarly research writing are based on the instructor interviews or on other sources, such as previous analytical studies or an analysis of academic research papers from various disciplines. The researchers do not articulate the specific methods used to arrive at their generalizations. Conclusion – The authors conclude that students’ and instructors’ differing conceptions of the research process and the research paper have important implications for writing instruction. Many of the interviewed instructors described research as involving methods that are quite different from those needed for most research paper assignments. The discrepancies between class assignments and academics’ approaches to research suggests that differences in instructors’ and students’ views of research often are not addressed in the design of research paper assignments. Instructors who teach the research paper should ensure that the purpose, structure, and style of assignments reflect what content-area instructors will expect from students. Schwegler and Shamoon argue that because the basic conventions of the research paper generally apply across disciplines, instruction about those conventions can be integrated into composition courses and lower-level undergraduate courses. Such an approach can assist students in better understanding and approaching research writing as would a scholar in the given discipline.

scholarly journals Preparatory Learners’ Perspectives of Learner Autonomy in the Saudi Context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jameelah Asiri ◽  
Nadia Shukri
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Preparatory Year

Learner autonomy is a developing concept that has been the focal point of number of research papers investigating language learning. It has been under investigation by number of scholars and researchers over the years, the concept of learner autonomy has been supported by number of researchers, others attempted to prove that it does not fit all learners of different backgrounds. In this research paper, the focus is mainly on learners’ perspectives of learner autonomy, what do they know? To what extent the students understand the concept of learner autonomy? Developing autonomous learners is an area that needs to be explained. There are limited studies conducted in the Saudi context therefore, this study investigates Preparatory year female EFL students’ perspectives of learner autonomy in the Saudi context. Moreover, it examines whether the learners have the knowledge and the competence to develop their learning. The perspectives and views of 150 learners were collected using a questionnaire. The study follows a mixed methods approach. The reviewed literature showed that implications of learner autonomy reflected positively on learners (Burkert & Schwienhorst. 2008; Han, 2015). The main findings of this study revealed that students participated in this study had negative perspective of learner autonomy

scholarly journals Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: a data-driven study / Analisando o comportamento de colocações acadêmicas em um corpus de artigos científicos: um estudo dirigido por dados

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 1229
Author(s):  
Paula Tavares Pinto ◽  
Diva Cardoso de Camargo ◽  
Talita Serpa ◽  
Luciano Franco da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Respective Field ◽  
English Speaking

Abstract: Authors from different countries have published their papers in English, aiming to promote their research results widely and to become internationally known by their peers. It is also true that, although they are aware of the English terminology used in their respective field, some authors still struggle with some features of academic writing such as collocations. Thus, this paper presents a discussion on the underuse and overuse traces of academic collocations by Brazilian authors who had their articles published in English on an open electronic library of scientific journals. In order to analyse the collocations used by these researchers, we compiled a 906,035-word corpus from eight different academic areas. The collocations observed were statistically compared to those from an academic corpus of English writings which contains texts produced by English-speaking authors. Results showed that there are more collocations underused than overused by the authors. The analysis proved that the collocation repertoire of researchers could be broadened by being pointed out during academic writing workshops.Keywords: academic collocations; research paper writing; corpus linguistics.Resumo: Autores de vários países têm publicado seus artigos científicos em inglês com o intuito de promover amplamente os resultados de suas pesquisas dentre a comunidade científica internacional. É verdade que, embora estejam cientes da terminologia utilizada no respectivo campo de pesquisa, alguns autores ainda apresentam dificuldade em lidar com certas características da escrita acadêmica, como o uso das colocações. Este artigo apresenta uma discussão sobre traços de sobreuso e subuso de colocações acadêmicas utilizadas por autores brasileiros que têm seus artigos publicados em inglês numa plataforma eletrônica aberta de artigos científicos. Para analisar as colocações utilizadas por estes pesquisadores, compilamos um corpus de 906.000 palavras a partir de oito áreas científicas. As colocações analisadas foram comparadas estatisticamente com as colocações de um corpus acadêmico de inglês que contém textos escritos por autores anglófonos. Os resultados mostraram que há mais traços de subuso que sobreuso de colocações acadêmicas utilizadas pelos pesquisadores e este repertório poderia ser ampliado se fossem destacadas durante cursos de escrita acadêmica em língua inglesa.Palavras-chave: colocações acadêmicas; escrita de artigos científicos; linguística de corpus.

Automatic Title Generation for Learning Resources and Pathways with Pre-trained Transformer Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 487-510
Author(s):  
Prakhar Mishra ◽  
Chaitali Diwan ◽  
Srinath Srinivasa ◽  
G. Srinivasaraghavan
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Medium Length ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Learning Pathways ◽  
Test Sets ◽  
Transformer Model

To create curiosity and interest for a topic in online learning is a challenging task. A good preview that outlines the contents of a learning pathway could help learners know the topic and get interested in it. Towards this end, we propose a hierarchical title generation approach to generate semantically relevant titles for the learning resources in a learning pathway and a title for the pathway itself. Our approach to Automatic Title Generation for a given text is based on pre-trained Transformer Language Model GPT-2. A pool of candidate titles are generated and an appropriate title is selected among them which is then refined or de-noised to get the final title. The model is trained on research paper abstracts from arXiv and evaluated on three different test sets. We show that it generates semantically and syntactically relevant titles as reflected in ROUGE, BLEU scores and human evaluations. We propose an optional abstractive Summarizer module based on pre-trained Transformer model T5 to shorten medium length documents. This module is also trained and evaluated on research papers from arXiv dataset. Finally, we show that the proposed model of hierarchical title generation for learning pathways has promising results.

Information Processing in Research Paper Recommender System Classes

2019 ◽  
pp. 90-118
Author(s):  
Benard M. Maake ◽  
Sunday O. Ojo ◽  
Tranos Zuva
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Operational Research ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Research Paper Recommender Systems

Research-related publications and articles have flooded the internet, and researchers are in the quest of getting better tools and technologies to improve the recommendation of relevant research papers. Ever since the introduction of research paper recommender systems, more than 400 research paper recommendation related articles have been so far published. These articles describe the numerous tools, methodologies, and technologies used in recommending research papers, further highlighting issues that need the attention of the research community. Few operational research paper recommender systems have been developed though. The main objective of this review paper is to summaries the state-of-the-art research paper recommender systems classification categories. Findings and concepts on data access and manipulations in the field of research paper recommendation will be highlighted, summarized, and disseminated. This chapter will be centered on reviewing articles in the field of research paper recommender systems published from the early 1990s until 2017.

Efficient Detection for Top Part of Research Paper with Layout Index

2013 ◽  
Vol 427-429 ◽  
pp. 2383-2386
Author(s):  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Dan Qing Zou
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Layout Analysis ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Efficient Detection ◽  
Future Work

The detection of elements in top part of research paper is the key problem in layout analysis, because these elements are often used as the search items by user. This paper provides a index-based method for auto detection of top part from research papers. Different from existing methods, an index is used for detecting items from top part of research paper. Experiments show the advantage of our method over existing methods, and future work is also described in the paper.

scholarly journals Situating the "Research Paper" Assignment in the IT Workplace

10.28945/2508 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur B. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Business Case ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Teaching Device ◽  
It Workplace

The "Research Paper" is a classic assignment in many IT courses. We explore its pedagogical advantages and weaknesses, especially since most students have career goals in the workplace rather than in academia. It is proposed that the research paper assignment be reformulated as a rhetorical case. This is a case-teaching device which is similar to, but distinct from the business case. We conclude by conceptualizing a simulated internship which can re-situate a broad range of IT "Research Papers" into the workplace.

scholarly journals A REVIEW OF PAUSES AND SILENCE IN COMMUNICATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 170-181
Author(s):  
Nidhi Kaushal ◽  
Sanjit Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
The World

Communication is very significant in any language for sharing ideas, thoughts and feelings. Though it is widely taught as an education discipline world over but, it doesn’t have same form and style in all the places and life of persons. Through this research paper, we are describing the different perspective of communication and their significance. In the organizations, it is called as the base of business and in normal life; it is the medium of sharing our feeling. Whether we are form different regions, know different languages but the act of communicate enable us to understands each other. Its style may vary in men and women but it is equally important for both of them. Without communication we can’t even think of our existence. It is a medium of exploring the world. It has strong power of healing the wounds of heart. Soft speakers are always welcomed by all. Through the best communication skills, one can reach the heights of success. It is the power of a leader. The main aim of writing this research paper on communication is to introducing the communication as a best device and with good communication we can win in every field.

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