Academic Writing
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Lectures
Course Description
Purpose and strategy of academic writing. Organization, style, and flow. Discourse-level cohesion; hedging. Text organization patterns: general-specific, problem-solution, compare-contrast, cause-effect. Constructing a research paper. Data commentary. Summarizing. Reviewing and replying to a review. Typesetting tools (LaTeX and BibTeX). Typography guidelines and common mistakes.
Prerequisites
Considering the instruction language is English, students are expected to have a good command of the language.
Study Programmes
University graduate
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Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the purpose and style of academic writing
- Apply common text organization patterns
- Differentiate between the types of academic documents (report, scholarly article, commentary, summary, review)
- Design an outline for a research paper or a MSc thesis
- Construct and sketch the content of a research paper
- Use the typesetting tools (LaTeX and BibTex)
Forms of Teaching
Lectures
Lectures according to the schedule.
Independent assignmentsIndividual writing assignments.
OtherDiscussing examples and own texts.
Grading Method
Continuous Assessment | Exam | |||||
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Type | Threshold | Percent of Grade | Threshold | Percent of Grade | ||
Homeworks | 0 % | 40 % | 0 % | 40 % | ||
Class participation | 0 % | 20 % | 0 % | 20 % | ||
Mid Term Exam: Written | 0 % | 20 % | 0 % | |||
Final Exam: Written | 0 % | 20 % | ||||
Exam: Written | 50 % | 40 % |
Comment:
All homework assignments are obligatory. All homework assignments must be submitted before the last week of lectures in order to be admitted to the (final) exam.
Week by Week Schedule
- Introduction to academic writing
- Academic style
- Text organization: writing notes and paragraphs (coherence and cohesion)
- Text organization: writing summaries
- Text organization: report writing
- Introduction to writing a research paper
- Introduction to writing a research paper (cont'd). Midterm revision
- Midterm exam
- Typesetting tools (LaTeX and BibTeX). Typography guidelines and common mistakes
- Writing a research paper (1/3): title and abstract, introduction, methods, results
- (January 6, national holiday, no class )
- Writing a research paper (2/3): discussion, conclusions; graphs, figures and tables
- Writing a research paper (3/3): referencing and plagiarism. Guidelines for writing a (MSc) thesis
- Discussion on mock research papers written by students. Final revision.
- Final exam
Literature
General
ID 222907
Winter semester
2 ECTS
L2 e-Learning
30 Lectures
0 Seminar
0 Exercises
0 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises
Grading System
90 Excellent
80 Very Good
70 Good
60 Sufficient