Academic Language Skills: Writing 1.S2.EP.TTP.8
Course objectives:
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.
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Course content includes:
• coherence-oriented text analysis techniques
• cohesion-oriented text analysis techniques
• text-editing techniques
• error correction
• covering students' individual needs
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Methods of teaching: tutoring, mentoring, text analysis, writing tasks; ICTtools/MSTeams platform
Field of study
Student workload
Study level
Education profile
Type of course
foreign languages
The semester in which the subject is carried out
Mode
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes (PRK 2019)
Knowledge
The student knows:
1. academic discourse in the field representing their MA thesis focus (k_W06/P7S_WG)
2. rules of the protection of intellectual copyright (k_W08/P7S_WK)
Skills
The student can:
3. use academic discourse to carry out academic writing tasks (k_U01/P7S_UW; k_U04/P7S_UK)
4. 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_U05/P7S_UK)
Social competences
The student is ready to:
5. act ethically in the context of academic writing including source documentation, paraphrasing and quoting (k_K05/P7S_KR)
Assessment criteria
Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes
active participation in classes (40% of the final grade - outcome 1,2,3,4,5)
writing tasks (15% each of the final grade - outcome 1,2,3,4,5)
The individual writing tasks include:
1. progress report on own MA research project including a front page (15%)
2. samples of long and short quotations and paraphrases with references to sources (15%)
3. samples of bibliography in MLA or APA style (15%)
4. a summary of MA thesis together with key words – English and Polish versions (15%)
Grading system:
active participation and two writing tasks - grade 3,0
active participation and three writing tasks - grade 4,0
active participation and four writing tasks - grade 5,0
Bibliography
Reading list
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
used for self-study
Hinkel, E. (2004). Teaching academic ESL writing. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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.
supplementary reading
Fisher, A. (2011). Critical thinking: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leki, I. (1998). Academic writing: Exploring processes and strategies (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Additional information
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