Promoting Good Scientific Communication Habits by Leveraging the Community of Practice within a Single Research Group

Abstract

Librarian atÉcole de technologie supérieure, an engineering school in Montreal, he works on developing information literacy skills for undergraduate and graduate doctoral students. He also works, in collaboration with 3 professors and a researcher, on a service that uses peer-support to help graduate students who have to write a thesis, a journal article or who want to develop their scientific communication skills. Mr. Jerome Harrison,École de Technologie Supérieure Jerome is a M.A.Sc. student at the Imaging and Orthopaedics Research Laboratory atÉTS. He specializes in medical image processing, analysis and visualization.

Team Culture of Community: Cultural Practices for Scientific Team Cohesion and Productivity

“…Teams of all kinds can be considered CoPs in which newer members aspire to become full participants and enact behaviors associated with the community (Langevin Harnois et al, 2018; Phillips & Russell, 1994). Newer members learn to navigate the community’s norms, language, and practices by observing and socially interacting with more advanced members (Feldon et al, 2015; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Rogoff, 1990).…”

“…A team’s practices also influence cohesion and productivity (Brahm et al, 2011; Langevin Harnois et al, 2018). Extant research offers a wide range of practices that have been hypothesized, tested, and implemented to improve team effectiveness (see e.g., Wildman & Bedwell, 2013).…”

Providing Sustainable Scientific Writing Support for Graduate Engineering Students by Creating a Local Scientific Learning Community

“…There are four activities described below, a Peer Review Service, Writing and Reviewing Contests, Writing Blitzes, and Writing Support Groups; these make up the core activities that are regularly offered at our institution at large, as writing support in our learning community. We have also launched an initiative of establishing these activities (and others) within a single engineering laboratory setting; the particulars of this laboratory initiative are discussed in a separate paper at this conference [14]. With a librarian committing about 10 hours per week, the Review and Writing Support person 14 hours per week, and otherwise the goodwill of the three professors as well as motivated students who have taken leadership roles in the learning community, we estimate that there have been over 800 students participants in different activities since launching the program with the numbers growing each year (over 500 participants in 2017-2018 alone).…”