Aims & Learning Objectives:
Aims: To provide students with experience and skills in planning and undertaking a scientific investigation, analysing and interpreting findings and reporting the outcomes. After taking this course the student should be able to:
* identify the intellectual, time- and resource-management and technical requirements for productive, rigorous and responsible scientific investigation and reporting;
* undertake scientific writing at the level of a primary research paper;
* demonstrate technical, analytical, interpretative and literature-accessing skills in the undertaking and presentation of the project.
Content:
Selection and definition of a problem that can be investigated effectively within constraints of safety, time and resources; strategic planning; gathering, processing, analysis and interpretation of information; literature searching and reviewing; scientific writing and presentation.
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