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Seminar on Spatial Science and
Applications
Lecture 1
Hongjie Xie, Geological Sciences/UTSA
Purposes
• Learn how to write, submit, revise, and review
a paper for publication
– Student reviews a paper for publication
• Student leads discussions on peer-reviewed
papers
• Student writes a paper based on what learned
Student reviews a paper
• A case paper will be given and students will review the
paper and submit review comments
• The comments will be submitted one week after the
paper will be given and will be graded and will be
compared/discussed with each other and with peerreviewed comments from the Journal
• A revised paper will be reviewed again and further
comments will be submitted (one week after the paper
will be given) for grading and will compared/discussed
with each other and with per-reviewed comments
from the Journal
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Student-lead discussions
• Each student will select a topic of their
research thesis or interest
• Identify 2 or more papers to review and
discuss
• Distribute chosen papers two weeks before
your discussion slot to the class
• Lead the discussion
Schedule
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S1: David Prado
S2: Eric Kouba
S3: Newfel Mazari
S4: Wentao Xia
S5: Chase Muller
S6: Yunbo Bi
Write a paper
• Each student will write a paper of your current
study/thesis, based on what you learned from
the class
• The paper will be graded completely based on
all the requirements and issues discussed in
the class.