Creating innovative writing instruction for Computer Science graduate students

Kayfetz, Janet L.; Almeroth, Kevin C.

doi:10.1109/fie.2008.4720261

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“…Etlinger [8], Falkner and Falkner [9], and Karatsolis et al [14] describe frameworks for designing communication components for any course. To bring communication instruction closer to the technical work in CS, some programs have replaced required technical communication courses taught by another department (often English) with similar courses designed specifically for their students [13,15].…”

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“…The literature also reveals that the profession finds most new CS graduates to be deficient in their communication skills [8,9,15]. A recent study of eight new software developers (i.e., ones with little or no experience beyond a limited internship) at Microsoft [1] provides new insight into the reasons that college CS programs have had difficulty equipping their students with them.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…There is general agreement in the literature that computer science (CS) graduates must be effective communicators to meet the needs of their employers and become successful professionals [4,8,9,12,14,15,18]. The literature also reveals that the profession finds most new CS graduates to be deficient in their communication skills [8,9,15].…”

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Workplace scenarios to integrate communication skills and content

Hoffman

Anderson

Gustafsson

2014

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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A recent study of new software developers at Microsoft reveals the significance and integration of communication skills in their daily tasks. While the literature offers a variety of approaches to promote the integration of communication skills into the Computer Science curriculum, a discrepancy remains between what students get and what they need. In this paper, we propose using workplace scenarios that integrate communication skills with technical content situated in and mediating workplace activity. Workplace scenarios are based on an analysis of the workplace as an activity system. Guidelines for implementing workplace scenarios are provided. A case study analyzes the integration of communication skills with technical content using workplace scenarios in a software development course.

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Workplace scenarios to integrate communication skills and content

Hoffman

Anderson

Gustafsson

2014

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…In the class setting, the group focuses on the principles of academic writing and participates in the analysis and editing of student papers. In the individual conference meeting, the dynamic shifts to a dialogue between a single student and the instructor who scrutinize the content and rhetorical organization of the student's text and address idiosyncratic elements of the student's writing such as style, tone, and sentence level language patterns [1,2]. Conferencing plays a critical role in a student's writing development, as it is through this focused interaction that a student writer's organizational logic, language usage, and even thinking style evolve and mature.…”

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“…Many computer science educators who recognize the importance of excellent writing skills have incorporated a writing component into their courses at both the undergraduate [3,4,5,6] and graduate levels [2,7,8,9]. Within the distance learning community, research-ers have described the use of technology for collaborative writing, with mention of tools such as email, chatting, shared sites, individual word processors, and web conferencing for joint writing projects (10,11,12,13,14).…”

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Your Desktop or Mine: Extending the Reach of Writing Instruction

Kayfetz

Schulzrinne

Sherwood

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Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal

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Crafting scientific papers in business management: a canvas roadmap proposal

Ferasso

2021

MRJIAM

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Purpose This paper aims to present a tool for helping the mindset organization of graduate students and early career researchers in the process of scientific papers writing. The canvas roadmap is proposed and summarizes the fundamental steps and main features of an academic paper in the business management field. Design/methodology/approach The adopted methodological procedures followed action research and focus groups precepts. Validation was applied in longitudinal and transversal procedures, with two early career researchers and with three groups of graduate students from different institutions. The validation procedures allowed the identification of 15 main features that were structured in a canvas format. Findings The conception of the canvas roadmap, influenced by the business model canvas, is a tool for easing researchers’ mindset when preparing a manuscript. Each of 15 features are explored according to main identified components along the paper writing process. Advices for early researchers are addressed, and key characteristics are presented. Further readings in academic writing literature are suggested as along with practical tips for developing the manuscript. Research limitations/implications Specifically, the canvas roadmap proposal intends to guide Iberoamerican/Latin American scholars to achieve their goals of publishing in top tier journals, relevant to their academic careers, and to improve research outcomes through a structured guidance for crafting scientific papers. Originality/value As main contribution and novelty, this paper intends to provide a canvas roadmap by identifying the main sections a scientific paper in the Business Management field must follow, and how to address specific features when writing these sections. This tool was conceived due the Business Management field needs a faster-to-address and easy-to-use tool and that summarizes main features of academic papers.

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Creating innovative writing instruction for Computer Science graduate students

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Workplace scenarios to integrate communication skills and content

Workplace scenarios to integrate communication skills and content

Your Desktop or Mine: Extending the Reach of Writing Instruction

Crafting scientific papers in business management: a canvas roadmap proposal

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