(in Polish) Academic Language Skills: Writing 1.2.5-D2-W
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 formating of their MA thesis according to University regulations, organisation of content, referencing, bibliography accoring 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
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
Student knows:
1. in an advanced degree terminology of linguistics, literature and culture studies (k-W-3/P7S_WG)
2. 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:
Student can:
3. use their philological knowledge - formulate and solve complex and unusual problems concerning the use of language as well as linguistic, literature 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)
4. use a foreign language 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 competence
Student is ready to:
5. function competently, responsibly and ethically within the area defined by the selected philological speciality that results in their writing of well-constructed MA thesis (k-K-5)
Assessment criteria
Final grade is a compilation of grades received for individual writing tasks that include:
1. front page formating
2. samples of long and short quotations and paraphrases with references to sources
3. samples of bibliography in MLA or APA style
4. summary of MA in Polish and English with key words
Additional information
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