Hints for Seminars
Proseminars and seminar as well as student research projects have a common scientific method. It is very crucial to critically select and reflect existing research literature on the one hand, and to comparative evaluate and distillate this knowledge for papers and presentation on the other hand. This page gives some basic hints in the scientific method for seminars:
- Guidelines for reading, writing, and presenting
- Templates for papers and presentations
- Useful tools for literature management
- Important sources for scientific literature research
- Selected links to resources and journals
- Collection of further useful links
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Guidelines for reading, writing, and presenting
- How to read a paper. A presentation about an efficient approach to scientific articles.
- How to write a paper. An overview of fundamentals in structuring and writing scientific papers.
- How to give a presentation. An collection of organising and holding a free and lively talk.
- How to write good style. An illustration of pitfalls and chances in writing a paper in good language.
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Templates for papers and presentations
- Templates for seminar papers: Latex, MS Word
- Templates for for presentations: Latex, MS Powerpoint
- Templates for short papers or proposals: Latex, MS Word
- Template for Bachelor/Master/PhD theses: Latex
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Useful tools for literature management
- JabRef - open source and platform independent research resource management system with easy-to-use access to the most important literature search engines. Allows to import from various formats and stores in bibtex as native file format.
- Citavi - commercial research resource management system with a large set of import and export functions including 'reference picker' for many software products (browser, word, etc.).
- EndNote + Reference Manager - commercial but easy-to-use research resource management system for Microsoft products as well as for exporting in bibtex.
- Zotero - open source Firefox extension which collects the research resources in the browser itself.
- CiteULike - free web-based research resource management system. Allows to store and share references on-line and offers several browser bookmarklet and export functions.
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Important sources for scientific literature research
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Selected links to resources and journals
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Collection of further useful links
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