Academic Writing 2 1.S3.JAT.PP.17
Course objectives:
The Academic Writing course aims to support students in the preparation of the diploma paper by improving their writing skills at the academic level.
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Course content:
1. The formal properties and conventions of academic writing
2. Selected stylesheet guidelines (APA)
3. In-text citations and quotations
4. Compiling a bibliography
5. Paraphrase
6. Summary
7. Synthesis
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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:
writing practice, discussion, feedback, ICT tool/MSTeams platform
Field of study
Student workload
Study level
Education profile
Type of course
The semester in which the subject is carried out
Mode
Requirements
Course coordinators
Term 2022/23-L: | Term 2023/24-L: | Term 2024/25-L: |
Learning outcomes
LEARNING OUTCOMES ACCORDING TO PQF 2019:
KNOWLEDGE
The student knows and understands:
1. advanced techniques used when writing a diploma paper (k_W03/P6S_WG)
2. elements of academic discourse in the field of scientific writing (k_W05/P6S_WG)
3. the principles of copyright and its protection in relation to academic sources used to write the diploma thesis (k_W06/P6S_WK)
SKILLS:
The student is able to:
4. recognize and write various types of specialist texts and create their own, coherent and logical arguments and formulate conclusions (k_U03/P6S_UW)
5. create texts in English relating to topics related to tourism services, using formal sources (k_U07/P6S_UK)
6. express themselves in writing in English in a coherent and precise manner on selected issues related to the service of tourism, using both the achievements of philological sciences and other disciplines (k_U11/P6S_UW)
Assessment criteria
Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:
1. Active in-class participation (working on individual BA projects) 100% (effect 1,2,3,4,5,6)
60 -67% grade 3.0
68 - 75% grade 3.5
76 - 83% grade 4.0
84 - 91% grade 4.5
92 - 100% grade 5.0
Bibliography
The reading list is adjusted to an individual BA project.
Additional information
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