Week #5

In this week's lecture, Erkki talked about two important matter, which every researcher is going to need, sooner or later: Quality of Research and Presentation Skills.
In every research, some parameters should be considered, so it can be considered as a scientific research.

1. Accountability: A perspective to quality and relevance of the research.
2. Credibility: Trustworthiness of the research and expertise of the research, plus subjective and objective aspects of the research itself.
3. Reliability: (The results of) the research should be reliable and make sense.
4. Validity: The extent which measured values are influenced by the factors, and generalizability of the results.

A scientific and logical research, should be verified, from these points of view, and lack of each one of these, will result in an unprofessional, unaccountable, ... work.

The other lecture was about some details about different aspect of a presentation, or what Errki referred to as Communication.

1. Structure: The structure of the research should serve one and only goal: Transferring the message of the whole research. Arguments, story and logical reasons could be used, to reach the goal better and also easier for the reader.
2. Language: Different kinds of techniques in text processors, like bold, italic, references, and reasonable usage of abbreviation and spell checking (and more importantly proof reading), can be usd by the researcher. Plus, it is important that every paper, chapter, section, paragraph and even every sentence should give one message.
3. Figures and tables: There are some important things about the way figures and tables should be used in a presentation or paper, Using captions, resolution, mentioning them in the text, referencing and using them if they're needed, are important facts which Erkki mentioned during the lecture.