READING AND ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

The lab aims at introducing to reading and structuring scientific contributions. This will be done by familiarising students with the goals, objectives, logics, research design, and structure of a scientific contribution.

No specific prerequisites.

1. Ability to analytically and critically read a scientific contribution, through a vision of both the entirety of a paper and its specific parts; 2. Learning which are the necessary steps to set up a research design and subsequently build a scientifically contribution based on it, whilst also understanding the specificities of each step.

Introduction to research; objectives and logics of a scientific contribution; research design; organising a paper; literature review and hypotheses formulation; design: data and methods; analysis; critical discussion and contribution to the literature.

Materials shared by the teachers.

Class lectures; interactive exercises and course activities

Class attendance and active participation; continuous assessment through exercises and activities (two sets of topics, 15% on the first day and 35% on the second day). Non-attending students: written exam.

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