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2016/2017 BA-BSEMV3001U The Craft of Research
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| The Craft of Research |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Bachelor |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Start time of the course | Autumn |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Max. participants | 100 |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in Service
Management
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| Last updated on 04-03-2016 | |
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To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors:
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| one semester of coursework at CBS | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reading and writing are essential academic competences with life-long applicability (for example, in writing work reports or job essays). Beneath the theoretical and methodological objectives of all CBS’s study programs, therefore, there is what may be called a “craft orientation”, an interest in cultivating the basic habits of mind that define scholarly work. The aim of this course is to help students develop this particular set of skills, useful first during university studies but also later, during professional activity, for writing and presenting ideas, reports or projects in a coherent well-articulated manner. It will introduce students to the view that research is an ongoing conversation among knowledgeable peers. It will then train the students to participate effectively in this conversation, especially through their written work. To this end, it will offer instruction in the resources that a modern research library makes available to scholars and the rules of good scholarly writing.
At the beginning of the course, the students will be asked to select an assignment that has been submitted in a previous course, which they will be required to rework for this one. Students are expected to write a new paper on the basis of the old one, using the principles taught in the course. In addition to completely rewriting the prose of the original paper, they will be expected to expand it with additional library research. The reworked assignment will serve as the basis for a final submission. |
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| The course is organized as 13
teaching sessions. The first two are devoted to introducing the
course and the conversational nature of scholarship. Five are
devoted to writing skills, specifically, how to write the prose
needed for the parts of a standard piece of social science writing:
introduction, background, theory, method, analysis, implications
and conclusion. Five sessions are devoted to the use of the
library, specifically, how to conduct topic searches and citation
searches of the scholarly literature (using EBSCO, Scopus, Web of
Knowledge, etc.), how to use a selection of information databases
(Orbis, Passport, Factiva, etc.), how to effectively navigate the
Internet for useful information (Google, Wikipedia, etc.), and how
to use reference management software. A final session will be
devoted to concluding and evaluating the course.
Throughout the course students will be required to complete weekly written tasks designed to train and test everything from their ability to write a clear, declarative sentence to their ability construct an accurate bibliographical reference. |
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