Please note that the lectures are designed to provide an introduction and overview of the relevant course material. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the topics covered in the course, we strongly recommend delving into the books and additional resources indicated on the reading list. You are expected to learn from the papers, books, videos and discussions covered in tutorial sessions. The lectures primarily serve as a platform to help with your understanding of the key foundations of the course and to give you an opportunity to ask questions and discuss issues. This is a large course and wide engagement in questioning and discussion will be difficult or impossible to achieve. To address this, we will post discussion topics on the course Piazza page, and smaller, more interactive group discussions will take place in the tutorial sessions. Additionally, we will organise live sessions where you can directly pose questions to lecturers, teaching assistants, and guest speakers.
Supporting resources:
- Free Language Tool to help you with English grammar: https://languagetool.org/
- Improving Your Language by Maria Wolters: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/irr/pdfs/English.pdf
- Advice on writing UG4 and MSc project reports by Sharon Goldwater: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/sgwater/writing/ug4_report.html
- Transferring your writing skills to academic tasks (LinkedIn Learning): https://www.lynda.com/Education-Elearning-tutorials/Transferring-your-writing-skills-academic-tasks/383571/439117-4.html
- Writing in Sciences (Coursera): https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite
- Advanced Writing (Coursera): https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-writing
- Past IRR Examples: https://www.learn.ed.ac.uk/ultra/courses/_113085_1/outline/edit/document/_9497357_1?courseId=_113085_1&view=content