English for Academic Purposes: Writing tutorial 1.S2.MLA.30

Learning outcomes (PRK 2019)

Knowledge
The student knows:
1. how to articulate in academic writing dilemmas of modern interdisciplinary research practices and their applications for solving social problems in the field representing their MA thesis focus (k_W13/P7S_WK)
2. rules of the protection of intellectual copyright (the issue of plagiarism) (k_W15/P7S_WK)
3. principles of discourses of organizations relevant to professional activity in such fields as education, culture, media, arts, professional communication, or entrepreneurship (k_W16/P7S_WK)

Skills
The student can:
4. recognise and replicate typical genres, styles and rhetorical conventions characteristic of (academic) communication (k_U01//P7S_UW)
5. adjust learning techniques to changing circumstances and available sources and tools to write in English at the academic level (k_U16/P7S_UU)
6. write in English at least at the level of C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages and in the scope of specialist terminology in their academic writing (k_U13/P7S_UK)

Social competences
The student is ready to:
7. express opinions in writing based on reasonable premises and deliberate on the issues for public interest (k_K07/P7S_KO)
8. respect the rules regulating academic writing and academic communication (k_K11/P7S_KR)

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active participation in classes - 40% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,5,7)
2. Writing tasks - each 15% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

The individual writing tasks include:
1. progress report on own MA research project including a front page (15%)
2. samples of long and short quotations and paraphrases with references to sources (15%)
3. samples of bibliography in MLA or APA style (15%)
4. a summary of MA thesis together with key words – English and Polish versions (15%)

Grading system:
active participation and two writing tasks - grade 3,0
active participation and three writing tasks - grade 4,0
active participation and four writing tasks - grade 5,0

Reading list
American Psychological Association. (2015). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Gibaldi, J. (2009). MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America

used for self-study
Hinkel, E. (2004). Teaching academic ESL writing. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Swales, J.M., & Feak Ch.B. (1994). Academic writing for graduate students. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Wilson, J. & J. Newbrook. (2004). New proficiency gold. London: Longman.

supplementary reading
Fisher, A. (2011). Critical thinking: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leki, I. (1998). Academic writing: Exploring processes and strategies (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of 1.S2.MLA.30 in USOSweb