DOs and DON'Ts for seminars

Deutsche Version

DOs (if I want to have a Seminar certificate, I will):

• write an approximate schedule for processing the paper at the beginning
• read the basic paper (BP) the seminar is about, and understand it after further literature study
• make myself familiar with the conventions of scientific quotation and use them consequently
• let my tutor know about the work's status frequently - in person or by email. The ex-act meaning of "frequently" is given by the tutor. I will skip a notice only on previous note, e.g. leaving for a 3 week vacation
• prepare the content of the BP using information from other publications for the other seminar members to understand and thereby write the report
• describe the facts using my own words; simple changes or just replacing some words from the original will not do
• hand in parts of the report to my tutor at an early stage
• ask my tutor if I run into trouble and in doing so tell him which possible solutions I al-ready researched on my own
• read the seminar homepage regularly

DON'Ts (if I DO NOT want to have a Seminar certificate, I will):

• think to be able to finish the report in 4 weeks
• ask my tutor to solve every tiny problem for me without thinking of my own
• vanish into thin air for 4 months and show up 2 days before the deadline at my tutor with something I call a "seminar paper"
• copy the "seminar paper" from other literature
• copy the "seminar paper" under slight adjustments from other literature and think my tutor won't notice
• in general not quote properly and give an incomplete bibliography
• just paraphrase the BP without cogitation in my "seminar paper"
• present the content of the BP in my "seminar paper" in a more complicated way than it was explained in the BP
• express in the seminar paper or the presentation that I did not completely understand the BP
• ignore suggestions for improvement and advice given by my tutor