TEACHING PROFESSIONAL SKILLS FOR THE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCHER
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1991-12-01
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We teach students to become researchers through a kind of apprenticeship.
Experienced researchers take graduate students under their wing and tutor
them individually on how to do research--a slow and somewhat erratic
procedure. This article describes a course that is designed to accelerate
the process by imparting professional research skills. It has been taught
for three years to incoming graduate students, and includes seminars by
experienced researchers, presentations by students in the class, and
lectures and discussions on topics that relate to particular research
skills. Strong emphasis is placed on the critical analysis and evaluation
of research ideas, and students practice by writing reviews, presenting
papers, and constructing a thesis proposal.
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Computer Science