Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(Autumn 2016)
Module Outline
Purpose of This Module
1. Overview of research. Plagiarism.
2. Library session (Helen Ireland/Chris Vernon, 9-10am & 2-3pm in
To demonstrate to you dierent stages in Library Training Room, on Floor 2 of the Library)
research LaTeX and BibTeX (our usual lecture)
3. Academic writing I (Dr Leah Philips, the Writing Centre)
4. Critical analysis
To help you in developing your research 5. Academic writing II (Dr Leah Philips, the Writing Centre)
6. Ethics and legal issues (Dr Mike Joy)
skills 7. Literature reviews and understanding a research field
8. Research planning 1 Concepts, questions and constraints
9. Research Planning 2 - Research Focus, Risk Management and
To help you in developing your wriJng Working Plans
Developing a Research Proposal
skills 10. Presentations (Assignment 3)
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What is Research?
Assignments
Assignment 1: Critical analysis of a research paper using LaTeX/ Research is an oKen-used term in everyday language
BibTeX (25% = 15% for writing + 10% for LaTeX familiarity)
Deadline: Thur 10 November (12noon), week 6
Do research to nd a good university, accommodaJon, etc?
Assignment 2: Literature review of a research topic (25%)
Deadline: Mon 28 November (12noon), week 9
Not really research in the scienJc context
Assignment 3: Presentation - Summary of a research paper of your
choice (10%, 10min + questions = 15min per student)
Assessment: YT and your personal tutor
RelaJon between conducJng research and gathering facts
Preliminary: week 10 (individual time slots)
RelaJon between conducJng research and conducJng literature
Assignment 4: MSc project proposal (40%) review
Deadline: Thu 18 February (12noon), week 6 of Term 2
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Research demands
Research Process
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Research is boring!
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hkp://research.microsoK.com/en-us/news/features/peresrobbins-030311.aspx
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Your DissertaVon Research Enrollment in a research degree forced you to idenVfy a problem to work on
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PaVence
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o Help you grow in condence and self-expression Behavioural. Quantify the effect on searchers of varying the interface.
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Interest
More chance of pushing the Realistic
boundary of knowledge Good training for industrial
More exciting research
Disadvantages Disadvantages
Your model may be too Mostly boring, like a
abstract and unrealistic collection of honours theses
Its hard to choose the Unlikely to contribute a lot
variable parameters Feasibility
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Collaborators should: This is not quite right, but its true that some PhD students know more
o Provide complimentary experJse (and the required data) than their advisor about the specic problem they are working on.
o Be at least somewhat interested in your problem
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Interest Self-MoVvaVon
The topic/problem you choose should be:
o Of Personal interest
o Of wider interest to others working in the area
Expected to contribute new, veriable knowledge
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Build in condence
Sense of fulllment & pride
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First, Typical Structure of a Research Paper Typical Structure of a Research Paper (contd)
SoluLon
Abstract Methodology used to solve the problem, why?
TheoreJcal derivaJon
Algorithm design
IntroducLon SoYware development
MoJvaJon, background of the research, the problem to be solved in this paper
EvaluaLon
Experiment design
Analysis of experimental results
Literature review / Related work Draw conclusions
The work related to the work in this paper
- Context of this research work Discussion/Conclusions
Re-iterate what have been achieved in this work
- The work to support the assumpJons made in this work
Discuss the future work which can be done following this work
ExisJng work to solve the similar problems
The dierence between this work and the exisJng work Bibliography
Appendices
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What is Plagiarism?
A common way that students commit plagiarism is by
Plagiarism is re-use of others ideas, words, material using phrases taken from a published source without
proper acknowledgment.
without appropriate acknowledge-ment of the
sources of that informaLon.
Proper acknowledgement has two requirements:
This includes, not just copying from published papers, an indicaJon of the source of the quotaJon
but from material in electronic form, such as Web an indicaJon of the extent of the quotaJon
pages, news arLcles etc.
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Case Study 2
Why is it NOT acceptable?
Original text
The rise of industry, the growth of ciJes, and the expansion of the populaJon
were the three great developments of late nineteenth century American history. The writer has failed to cite a source for any of the ideas or facts.
As new, larger, steam-powered factories became a feature of the American
landscape in the East, they transformed farm hands into industrial laborers, and
provided jobs for a rising Jde of immigrants.
Your text
As steam-driven companies became more visible in the eastern part of the
country, they changed farm hands into factory workers, and provided jobs for the
large wave of immigrants. Therefore, the increase of industry, the growth of ciJes,
and the explosion of the populaJon were three large factors of nineteenth
century America.
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Use someones ideas, but put them in your own words, and
Although the writer has cited a source for any of the ideas or acknowledge the source of the informaJon.
facts, the writer has only changed around a few words and
phrases, or changed the order of the original sentences.
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Case Study 5
Why is it NOT acceptable?
Original text in reference [2]:
The rise of industry, the growth of ciJes, and the expansion of the populaJon
were the three great developments of late nineteenth century American history.
Although the writer has paraphrased the text, the As new, larger, steam-powered factories became a feature of the American
writer has failed to cite the source of the landscape in the East, they transformed farm hands into industrial laborers, and
informaLon. provided jobs for a rising Jde of immigrants.
Your text
Steam-powered producJon had shiYed labor from agriculture to manufacturing,
and as immigrants arrived in the US, they found work in these new factories. As a
result, populaJons grew, and large urban areas arose. This is how America
developed in the late nineteenth century [2].
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Case Study 5
Why is it acceptable?
Original text in reference [2]:
The rise of industry, the growth of ciJes, and the expansion of the populaJon
were the three great developments of late nineteenth century American history. Paragraph relays the informaLon in the original text using your
As new, larger, steam-powered factories became a feature of the American own words.
landscape in the East, they transformed farm hands into industrial laborers, and
provided jobs for a rising Jde of immigrants.
The source of the informaLon is cited.
Your text
Steam-powered producJon had shiYed labor from agriculture to manufacturing,
and as immigrants arrived in the US, they found work in these new factories. As a
result, populaJons grew, and large urban areas arose. This is how America
developed in the late nineteenth century [2].
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For example:
For example,
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To protect yourself, do not lend any part of your soluJon TurniLn will compare your paper against published
to any student unJl aYer the assignment has been arJcles, web pages, and student papers, and generate a
marked and returned. report.
Keep all of your old notes and draYs unJl aYer the end of 14 billion web pages,
the course (so that if something does happen, you have Leading library databases and publicaJons
150 million student papers
proof that you did the work yourself).
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Todays Session
Library session (2 groups, 9-10am & 2-3pm)
CS908 Research Methods
IntroducOon to LaTeX for scienOc wriOng
Prof Nasir Rajpoot
Department of Computer Science
Department of Pathology, UHCW NHS Trust
Slide credits: Dr Yulia Timofeeva, Dr Tamer Elsayed
Week 2b 14 Oct, 2016
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Content Layout
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\command_name[arguments]{arguments}
LaTeX document:
Arguments in curly brackets { } are compulsory.
Arguments in square brackets [ ] are optional.
How it looks like
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Title
Body
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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}
At the command prompt,
To compile the source le, type the command
latex example1
example1.dvi le will be generated
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To view dvi le, type Note: for Windows machines, you can also use MikTeX
the command:
Note: for Mac machines, you can also use MacTeX which
xdvi example1 comprises TeX Live as well as some additional tools
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Tables Table 1
\begin{tabular}{ l c r }
\begin{tabular}{arguments}
1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6 \\
\end{tabular} 7 & 8 & 9 \\
\end{tabular}
l: left-justified column
c: centered column
r: right-justified column
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Table 2 Figures
\begin{tabular}{ l | c || r |} %tell LaTex to use the graphicx package
\hline \usepackage{graphicx}
1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6 \\
\begin{figure}
7 & 8 & 9 \\
%input the figure into the document
\hline
\includegraphics[arguments]{image_name}
\end{tabular}
\end{figure}
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The organisation which publishes your papers Structure of the LaTeX source le
would normally provide Latex Template for you to Processing LaTeX source le
use. Common commands in LaTeX
The template has set up the format for you.
MathemaOcs
Download the template and put your own Cross references
contents in.
Tables
IEEE Style template:
Figures
ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/
authors/authors_journals.html Bibliography
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Todays Session
CriHcal analysis of a research paper:
CS908 Research Methods o To explore the meaning of criIcal analysis
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CriIcal wriIng is not a summary (1) CriIcal wriIng is not a summary (2)
Descriptive writing Critical analytic writing
Descriptive writing Critical analytic writing
Explains what a theory says Shows why something is relevant
States what happened Identifies its significance or suitable
Notes the method used Identifies whether it is
States what something is like Evaluates strengths and appropriate or useful
weaknesses Says when something occurred Identifies why the timing is
Lists details Evaluates relative significance of important
details States the different components Weighs up the importance of
States the order in which things Makes reasoned judgments different component parts
happened States options Gives reasons for selecting
Says how to do something Argues a case according to the options
evidence Source: Cottrell, S. (2003).The Study Skills Handbook. 2nd ed. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan. p232.
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Three-Pass Approach
Second pass
A Three-pass approach Gives you a
general idea
Helps you
understand the
Let you grasp
to reading a research paper about the the papers paper in depth.
paper. content, but
Each pass accomplishes specic goals not its details.
First pass Third pass
and builds upon the previous pass
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CriIcal WriIng
Abstract
IntroducHon
Literature review
Addressing quesHons, overall Research methods
Data analysis/ndings
evaluaHon and the basic format of a Discussion
criHque .. Conclusion
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Is the context of the research clear? Are the main findings described clearly?
Are the research methods appropriate to the Are they clearly related to the original research
research quesIons? questions?
Are methods clearly jusIed? Are they presented in a format that is appropriate
Are the methods correctly described? for the findings?
Are the methods well executed? Is the interpretation of the data consistent with
Are ethical issues addressed? the evidence?
Are the findings significant?
Are the data analysed using appropriate tools?
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Session Plan
This Session: Understanding a research eld
o WriKng the Literature Review and Related Work secKons
o Tools for collaboraIve research (Cisco guest lecture)
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Next Session (week 8): Research Planning
o Research quesIons, constraints and project scoping
Prof Nasir Rajpoot o Risk management and research strategy
Department of Computer Science
Department of Pathology, UHCW NHS Trust Final Sessions (week 9): Developing a Research Proposal
o Content, focus, scope and relaIonship to a research project
Literature Review
Week 7 18 Nov , 2016 Slide credits: Dr Yulia Timofeeva, Dr Tamer Elsayed
Areas of Research
The concept of a research eld is loosely
dened
CollaboraIve research is a product of
overlapping/complemenIng interests
Understanding a Research Field ..
Security in
WriIng a literature review Computer Wireless Wireless
Wireless
Security Sensor Networks
Networks
Security Networks
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Assignment 2
You may focus on any aspect of the research topic you choose.
For example, if you select Social Network Analysis then you may choose
Assignment 2 to write your review on a specific topic, e.g., hidden friendship detection,
the current state-of-the-art with respect to analysis algorithms or anything
else directly related to the research topic.
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Social Network Analysis Can I choose any research topic and any aspect of that topic?
Machine / Deep Learning You can either select a topic from the list of suggestions or agree one with me. Within your
topic you can focus on any areas you choose.
High Performance / Cloud Computing
Data Mining / Big Data / Data Aanlytics Do I have to write it in LaTeX? What file format should I use for my final
submission?
Image Analytics You may use any authoring tools but your final submission must be in PDF format.
PresentaKons in Week 10
Choose a suitable research paper in the Computer
Science/ Data AnalyIcs discipline
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Session Plan
This Session (week 8): Research Planning
o Research quesIons, constraints and project scoping
CS908 Research Methods o Risk management and research strategy
What is a DissertaNon?
A dissertaNon is a parNcular kind of academic task.
You will be required to:
suggest/select a topic (by yourself or by choosing
from the suggested topics),
develop a research quesIon, Choosing a Research Topic
eecIvely plan your research,
be organised and methodical while conducIng
your research
write-up what you did and what your ndings were.
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Goal-oriented
AssumpIons
o We need to improve X, how can we do this?
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Research Focus
Forming a Hypothesis ..
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o Changing environments
o NegaIve results
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The weeks ahead are critical to your dissertation Interesting topics you ve encountered?
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Digital Forensics and Multimedia Analysis Communication Networks and Data Science
Involved with the ATI and MathSys CDT Associated with CUSP and WISC
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Strengths in many topics of theoretical computer science, You don t have to rely on the ideas of academic staff as a
including: starting point for your project
Algorithm Design and Analysis,
Complexity Theory, Logic,
Staff are always happy to support you in developing your
Automata and Formal Verification own research ideas and even developing a wider agenda
Understanding fundamental problems in CS, and design Have you encountered a research topic you are interested in?
of mathematical tools & better algorithms to solve them
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Don t panic!
Encouraged - provided the focus is on research
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Detailed report
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Remember that you re framing the research process Deadline: week 6 of Term 2 (submit a .pdf via
Tabula)
1. Define a research question
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Evidence of any progress made already? Your supervisor, peers and other academics can help here
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