Academic writing 1.S3.EP.PP.16

Course objectives:
- developing academic writing skills
- practicing academic referencing skills (MLA/APA)
- practicing academic discourse
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Course content:
1. The formal properties and conventions of academic writing
2. Selected stylesheet guidelines (APA, MLA)
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:
short writing practice tasks, discussion, feedback, group tasks, ICT tool/MSTeams platform

Field of study

English Philology - Practical Profile

Student workload

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties total number of ECTS: 4 1 ECTS – 30 hours: class participation, 2,5 ECTS – 75 hours: preparation to class 0,5 ECTS – 15 hours: direct contact with the instructor

Study level

BA level studies

Education profile

full time studies practical profile

Type of course

obligatory courses
foreign languages

The semester in which the subject is carried out

semester 6

Mode

(in Polish) Realizowany w sali

Course coordinators

Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf
Jolanta Szymańska

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

Knowledge:
Students know and understand:
1.specific terminology and techniques used in academic writing, and critical analysis of texts in English in order to solve specific problems; ways to express specific types of information (k_W04/P6S_WG)
2. principles of copyright and its protection in relation to referencing various cultural products, in particular in the field of English philology (k_W06/P6S_WK)

Skills
Students can:
3. use different phrases, structures and stylistic rules in order to formulate and solve problems or complete formal tasks in academic writing (k_U01/P6S_UW)
4. recognize and write different types of academic texts and create their own, coherent and logical arguments, and draw conclusions (k_U03/P6S_UW)
5. create texts in English on topics related to business, culture, economics, computer science, law, media, politics, science and sociology, using formal sources (k_U05/P6S_UK)
6. take up individual and group activities aimed at developing language skills (k_U09/P6S_UO)

Assessment criteria

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:

1. Summaries - 30% of the final grade (outcome: 1,2,3,4,6,7)
2. Paraphrases - 30% of the final grade (outcome: 1,2,3,4,6,7)
3. Syntheses - 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
4. Active participation in classes including group cooperation - 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6,7)

pass at 60% of the final grade

Bibliography

Reading list:
MLA style manual
APA style manual

Additional information

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