Thesis Seminar 2 (3 cr)
Code: 7S-58-3020
General information
- Enrolment period
- 02.07.2018 - 01.12.2018
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.08.2018 - 31.12.2018
- Implementation has ended.
- Credits
- 3 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Social Services
- Teachers
- Ulla-Maija Takkunen
- Kirsi Saarinen
- Course
- 7S-58
Objectives (course unit)
Students
- can write and present their research plan
- can act as an opponent
- can write the abstract of the thesis in an appropriate style
- know how to use library services to find essential, current, and comprehensive references
Content (course unit)
- Revision of research methods
- Writing a research plan on the basis of an accepted idea paper
- Presenting a preliminary research plan in the seminar
- Acting as an opponent of one research plan
- Supplementing the research plan (comments from teacher, students, and working life supervisor)
- Searching for professional publications in Finnish and English from electronic databases and using them as references for the research plan and thesis (thesis workshop)
- Academic writing (1 cr): academic vocabulary and style, the structure and contents of thesis abstract, passive voice and other impersonal expressions