Seminar report about the nuts and bolts of the graduate program

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This seminar was about the nuts and bolts of the graduate program presented by Dr. David Johnson. The purpose of the seminar was to help new graduate students know the rules of ECE department and also the requirements for graduate school. It was noted that the students attending the graduate seminar must follow the following four outlined rules; first of all, students are not allowed to sit in the back two rows. Secondly they cannot look at their cellphones or computers during the talk. Thirdly they should not come to the seminar late otherwise they will be given assignment to compensate their lateness. And the last rule is that it should be asked at least five questions after following the talk otherwise students cannot leave the seminar room.

After this presentation, Henry one of the IT and computing administrators of ECE department gave a talk about the resources and IT services they provide for students. He also informed about the computing clusters and the way students can make use of them.

After Henry presentation, Dr David Johnson talked about Virginia tech ethics systems and graduate and also under graduate honor system. He mentioned about the NSF Responsible Conduct Research online training and explained why it is important and it should be retaken every three years as long as the student is being funded for his/her research by NSF. Some of the lessons learned are the following; If a journal paper having something that consists of plagiarism is written and is discovered after it is published, not only the student but all the people involved in the paper will be in trouble. Dr Johnson

went over some case studies along with an interactive questions and suggested solutions. For instance, he also talked about the student who had some kind of plagiarism in his term paper and discussed the proper reactions to that student since his not been achieved and could be corrected.

Or he noted that there is a difference between the plagiarism which is done by the first year student and a student who is about to get his PhD. And also there is a big difference between a plagiarism which is archived and the one which is not yet published.

In the last part of the seminar, he talked about Ombudsperson, the service offered by graduate school who is a neutral person to solve the problems between student and his/her adviser or committee. Then he talked about the differences between MEng (course based degree) and MSc degree (research based). He defined different type of degrees' requirements and also PhD milestones. That was pretty much what was discussed in the seminar and as a whole, the purpose of the seminar was to bring together the information which is necessary for new graduate and international students.

Bonita, the summary regarding Henry is too short and uninformative. You need to expand on the discussion that he presented. Include some topic overview sentences. You don't have to go into detail about it but, you have to let the reader know that there was an interesting amount of discussion in his presentation as his information is also relevant to your survival as a student. An academic paper cannot start a sentence with "Or" as that connotes that a previous, but related discussion has already been presented. Since no statement has been previously made, you cannot use "Or" in that place in the sentence. Neither can you use the word "And" at the start of the sentence for the same academic reasons. Be cognizant of the English writing rules as you are now a masters degree student and you will be held to a higher academic writing standard than a regular college student. You should develop a concluding statement for the essay. This could be based upon the 5 questions that you posed which helped you to better understand the requirements and expectations of the student and professor of each other or, you could just summarize what you understood and how you hope to perform well as a student this semester. Right now, the essay feels like it is hanging. It isn't really closed in its manner of presentation so try to develop an impressive closing statement if you can.