PREPARING A RESEARCH PROJECT AND TAKING NOTES ON SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

General focus
Preparing a research project means managing a large quantity of information. Therefore it is necessary to learn as soon as possible how to organise yourself to work efficiently.
How to prepare a research project? How to organise your reading? How to take notes and to order them?
This workshop offers ways to get good wrorking habits from the beginning. It addresses PhD Students in first and second years.

Objectives : Efficiently organising a research project – Time management – Improving reading speed and efficiency – Quickly identifying and understanding relevant information in a scientific text – Memorising and summarising key information – Increasing the scientific vocabulary

Programme :

1. Starting off on the right foot
- Overcoming writing and reading blocks
- Understanding the writing process
- The learning journal: an indispensable tool for realising a research

2. Preparing a research project
- Focusing on the topic
- Formulating the research question
- Preparing a working plan

3. Taking notes on a research article
- Summarising a text into one’s words
- Visualising the text structure
- Template for taking notes

4. Being an active reader
- Generating questions
- Drawing inferences
- Reading with a critical eye

Duration: 20 hours

Target group: First and second year PHD Students