### Instructors: Joshua Borycz & Alex Carroll ### E-mail joshua.borycz@vanderbilt.edu alex.carroll@vanderbilt.edu ### Office Hours Make Zoom appointments with the following links: Joshua Borycz: vanderbi.lt/borycz Alex Carroll: vanderbi.lt/carroll Office: SC 3218 ### Course Information Tuesday 2:45-4:00pm Room #: SC 3211 Zoom link: http://tiny.cc/chem5600spring2024 ### Course Description This course will focus on how to find information, organize research data, and read and write effectively. This will be done by walking students through how to generate a research library, summarize journal articles, synthesize topics to address a single thesis, write an academic paper, review the work of others, and respond to reviewer comments. In the beginning of the course, we will learn how to use chemistry databases and find quality literature effectively. We will also learn how to use a citation manager, how to develop a research question, and how to generate a keyword search using Boolean logic. There will be a basic introduction to large language models (LLMs) and how to use them for research. We will then learn about the history and structure of academic journals and how to read them. This will be followed by effective writing techniques and how to create meaningful tables and figures. We will then learn what journal editors are looking for in works submitted to their journals and what the review process is like. You will then review the work of some of your colleagues and respond to reviews of your work.