Course of 2012

Paper and Presentation teaches Academic Skills in the program Nanotechnology (Twente University).
The program comprises the following topics:

• developing research questions
• searching relevant (scientific) information
• writing a (scientific) paper
• peer feedback in academic setting
• making a poster
• presenting scientific results

Students are required to write a paper, make a poster, and give a presentation and participate in feedback sessions on draft paper and presentation rehearsel.
This year the intertwining with the Lab course is removed. The lab course hands in a general topic, the paper will be something like the introduction to that topic.
From what I saw so far, the first activity will be to develop a "how to" topic (lab technique) to a "why" topic.

Originally I had something like "what is science" "what is a scientist" as a topic for the introductionary lecture. I am not sure now whether to keep it in.