Academic writing 2 1.5.D3.F.EN.27
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to familiarise students with and give practical advice on how to compose, rewrite and proof read their theses to meet their supervisor’s requirements. Students will be provided with practical help in editing their dissertations. They will receive guidelines on how to format text, paragraphs and the layout of their electronic documents, in particular, the title page, summary, conclusions, and bibliography, as well as on how to make in-text citations and cite quotations properly.
Course content
The course will focus on developing students' skills in:
Style and content, electronic document formatting, summary and conclusion writing, in-text citations, bibliography in different styles and formats, plagiarism.
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
Graduate knows and understands how to
1. recognize and compare formal and informal style of writing (k-W-4, s-W-1),
2. logically arrange arguments to maintain coherence (s-W-1),
3. choose appropriate layout, style, and grammatical and semantic structures (s-W-1),
4. have the knowledge of intellectual and industrial copyright laws (k-W-7).
Skills
Graduate can
1. apply the rules of written communication in practice and use appropriate methods and tools to prepare specific documents (k-U-2, s-U-1)
2. seek, analyse, assess, select and use information from written sources (s-U-1),
3. use the English language in writing with relative fluency, accuracy and communication efficiency (k-U-6, s-U-2)
Social competences
Graduate is ready to
1. critically assess their philological knowledge and recognize the importance of knowledge of the language in solving practical problems (k-K-1),
2. pay particular attention to vocational work ethics (k-K-3),
3. shape their views on the basis of their general knowledge acquired during studies (s-K-2).
Assessment criteria
Forms of evaluation of effects
Writing assignments 100% (students have to submit selected parts of their theses)
Additional information
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