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MIT OpenCourseWare
Communication Skills for Academics
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- Instructor
- Prof. Joanne Yates
- Term
- Spring 2002
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 5 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.289 Communication Skills for Academics, Spring 2002, Prof. Joanne Yates — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
Assignments
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Oral Presentations: The Basics Delivering Conference Papers Workshop: Introducing Your Research Interests
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Lecture 3: Oral Presentations: The Job Talk Workshop: The 60-second Elevator Pitch Writing: Genres of Academic Writing
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Lecture 4: Writing (and Reading) Journal Articles and Conference Papers
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Lecture 5: Surviving the Reviewing Process and Getting Published Reviewing Papers for Journals and Conferences
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Lecture 6: Teaching: The Basics Managing Discussions, Using Cases Workshop: Peer Reviewing of Draft Journal or Conference Review
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Lecture 7: Presentations
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Lecture 8: Presentations
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Lecture 9: Presentations
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Lecture 10: Interviewing for Field Work or Conducting a Job Search Peer Reviewing of Written Assignment
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Lecture 11: Presentations (optional re-do)
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Lecture 12: Presentations (optional re-do)
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Lecture 13: Course Wrap-Up
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Joanne Yates, 15.289 Communication Skills for Academics, Spring 2002.
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