Professional Development & Ethics in Plant Pathology

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Graduate students will develop key professional skills and ethics through a combination of lectures, discussions, and assignments. PPATH 522 Professional Development & Ethics in Plant Pathology (1) This course is designed to help graduate students acquire key professional skill and ethics through a combination of lectures, case study discussions on various ethics and professionalism issues, dialogs with invited guests about their professional experience, and mock exercises of paper and proposal reviews. Topics to be covered include: (a) the process and ethics of publishing, (b) how peer review of papers and grant proposals works, (c) plagiarism, (d) scientific misconduct, (c) oral and poster presentation skill, and (f) successful strategies in grant proposal writing and proposal review.