Academic Language Skills: Writing 1.2.W2.EP.8
The Academic Language Skills: writing course is focused on further development of academic writing in the context of MA thesis writing. The students receive mentoring and tutoring regarding graphic formatting of their MA thesis according to University regulations, organisation of content, referencing, bibliography according to MLA or APA standard formats. Attention is drawn to quotations, paraphrases, proper introduction to the MA as a whole but also to particular chapters, effective conclusion and suitable summary of the MA both in Polish and in English.
Course content includes:
• coherence-oriented text analysis techniques
• cohesion-oriented text analysis techniques
• text-editing techniques
• error correction
• covering students' individual needs
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
Knowledge
Graduates know
- advanced terminology of linguistics, literature and culture studies (k-W-3/P7S_WG)
- rules of the protection of intellectual and industrial copyright, intellectual property management, and the form of development of
individual entrepreneurship (k-W-7/P7S_WK)
Skills:
Graduates can
- use their philological knowledge - formulate and solve complex and unusual problems concerning the use of language as well as linguistic, literary and cultural knowledge, innovatively perform academic writing tasks thanks to:
- a proper selection of sources and information drawn from them, evaluation, critical analysis, synthesis, and creative interpretation of that information
- selection and use of appropriate methods and tools, including advanced information and communication techniques (ICT) (k-U-1/
P7S_UW)
- use English at the level of C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages and in the scope of specialist terminology in their academic writing (k-U-6/P7S_UK)
Social competences
Graduates are ready to
- function competently, responsibly and ethically within the area defined by the selected philological speciality that results in their writing of a well-constructed MA thesis (k-K-5)
Kryteria oceniania
Final grade is a compilation of grades received for individual writing tasks that include:
1. front page formatting (10%)
2. samples of long and short quotations and paraphrases with references to sources (35%)
3. samples of bibliography in MLA or APA style (20%)
4. summary of MA in Polish and English with key words (35%)
Literatura
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.
Cumming, A. (Ed.). (2006). Goals for academic writin: ESL students and their instructors. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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.
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